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Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres. -
Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music.
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The Thirty Years' War was a war fought in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, in which most of the great European powers of the time intervened.
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Marked by grandeur and ornamentation in both music and architecture
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The first reported transfusion was between 1666 and 1667 with animal blood transfused to humans. In the early 1800s, human-to-human transfusion was developed. -
Is a church of religious architecture in Baroque -
The first pressure cooker was introduced by Denis Papin in 1679. He called it the “steam digester.” It used steam pressure to increase the boiling point of water and as a result cook faster. -
the rise of the galant style,evolving musical forms and changing performance practices