September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
As you’ll see with much of music history etymology, we often steal terms from the art and architecture worlds. The term “Baroque” actually means “misshapen pear,” and the first popular usage referred to the style of architecture popular in the 1600s.
As with any term applied ex post facto (the term became part of the vernacular between 1920–1940), there is of course argument about how comparable art really was with the music of the time. However, one thing is for sure: both loved ornamentation! Trills and turns in music were the aural equivalent of columns ...
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