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Article: baroque
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- The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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baroque in music, a style that prevailed from the last decades of the 16th cent. to the first decades of the 18th cent. Its beginnings were in the late 16th-century revolt against
polyphony
that gave rise to the accompanied
recitative
and to
opera
. With opera and recitative came the
figured bass
, used consistently in ensemble music throughout the baroque era. Renaissance polyphony persisted, however, being called the
stile antico
and considered more appropriate to the church than the
nuove musiche.
The baroque period was thus one of stylistic duality; it was an era that displayed emotional extremes (see
romanticism
). By the end of the era major and minor
tonality
had ...
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