- Birth of modern Orchestra - Chamber Orchestra
- Harpsichord (Keyboard instrument) used extensively in Baroque music.
- Orchestral music has a mainly string sound (violins, violas, 'cellos, double bass)
- Harmony developed into major and minor keys and music follows a clear structure (Binary Form - AB, Ternery Form - ABA)
- Concerto Grosso Form developed (orchestra with a group of soloists)
- Use of terraced dynamics (suddenly loud / suddenly soft)
- Lots of ornaments and decorations in the music (trills etc)
- Music is often contrapuntal and uses sequences and imitation and long flowing melodies
- A few wind and brass instruments used but NO CLARINET as this was invented later
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- Harpsichord - a keyboard instrument which could only be played at one volume - loud or soft.
- Viols are replaced by the violin family
- Flutes/oboes/bassoons used in the woodwind section of the orchestra
- Trumpets, french horn, trombones used in the brass section of the orchestra
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Renaissance