| Western art music composed from approximately 1580 to 1760. Common-practice tonality
began to emerge in the Baroque era, moving from the Renaissance era focus on independent
melodic lines toward a key-centric view of tonality and an emphasis on formal separation
of bass, melody, and accompaniment. Baroque music often features elaborate musical
ornamentation and looser implied rules regarding counterpoint and dissonance than
Renaissance music. Western musical groups and forms expanded in size, range, complexity
and variety during the Baroque era - forms such as the opera, cantata, oratorio, solo
concerto, sonata, and fugue emerged during this time. In contrast to later Classical
eras, Baroque performers were often skilled improvisers of melodic lines and accompaniment,
and improvisation and ornamentation were fundamental elements of many Baroque performances.
The Baroque era saw the increasing preeminence of instruments and instrumental forms
- composers began to write for specific instruments and instrumental ensembles with
texture in mind, as opposed to the earlier Renaissance focus on vocal music and the
limitation of instrumental music largely to transcriptions of vocal music.
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DDEX Data Dictionary for Allowed Value Sets, 2019-09-16