From Renaissance to Baroque
musical form was becoming more controleld and systematic
individualized emotion through music
extravagance and magnificence

more regular rhythm, first use of meter and bar line

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Absolutism

Age of science – music becomes more scientific, systematized and calculated

Basso Continuo
creating an accompaniment from a composed bass part by playing the bass notes and improvising harmony above them
opera
drama presented in music
recitative
technique of declaiming words musically in a heightened, theatrical manner
aria
an extended piece for solo singer that has much more musical elaboration and coherence than a passage of recitative
Dynamics
more consistent