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Continuo - an accompaniying part of the baroque ochestra that provides the bass line. This is played by either a keyborad instrument (harpsichord/ organ), or a low string instrument (cello/ double bass). It ...

Baroque composers such as Bach and used a variety of techniques in their work. A commonly used feature was the Ground Bass. This was a pattern, used in the bassline of a piece of music, that was repeated for...

A cadence is a chordal progression that ends a phrase or piece of music. Perfect and plagal cadences provide a harmonically stable end to the music, whereas the imperfect and interrupted cadences make the mu...

The ritornello form was one of the musical structures developed in the Baroque period. It is characterised by a recurring A section in between new sections of music, and is often described as 'ABACA', where ...

Although both a perfect cadence and a plagal cadence resolve to a I chord, they have very different effects. A perfect cadence resolves V-I, while a plagal cadence resolves IV-I. The vast majority of art mus...