What are the main characteristics of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music?
heres everything in a nutshell Baroque- contrapuntal, lots of ornamentation, harpsichord used, Classical- bigger orchestra and piano used, very strict time with generally gradual changes in tempo/dynamics and that kinda thing, it always sounds very homophonic and this is the main difference between classical and romantic Romantic- bigger orchestra , swells in dynamics, thick timbre(texture) polyphonic textures hope that helped
I had to do the same things too. But my information can be changed or can be looked differently due to different theories. Baroque- Most of Baroque music has dynamic of Piano to Forte. It had more of polyphonic texture. The rhythms and melodies are repeated through out. Baroque music contains more of “plain” type of music. It wasn’t dramatic as Romantic Era Music. “Air on the G String” is example of Baroque and most of the rhythms and melodies are repeated and it is played in polyphonic texture. Classical- One of the famous composers of Classical is of course Mozart. If you ever listen to mozart’s piece, it is played very happily. Nothing dark or dramatic. Romantic- It was very dramatic. They tried to express the moods throughout music. There were more suites, movements, and compound moods. There were wide dynamic ranges and more styles. Styles, what I mean is it had more slurs, marccato, sticcato, and etc. They also had more phrase to a note. And it was played in homophonic texture. I
