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Baroque music forms a major portion of the classical music canon, being widely studied, performed, and listened to.he negative use of the word comes from a description by Charles de Brosses of the ornate and heavily ornamented architecture of the Pamphili Palace in Rome. Although the term was applied to architecture and art criticism in the 19th century, it wasn't until the 20th century that the term baroque was applied to music.
During the Baroque period, composers experimented with musical contrasts that differed greatly from the music of the Renaissance. They used what is known as a melodic soprano line supported by a bass line. Music became homophonic, meaning it was based on one melody with harmonic support coming from a keyboard player.rom the toccata emerged what is known as prelude and fugue, an instrumental music beginning with a short free style piece (prelude) followed by a contrapuntal piece using imitative counterpoint (fugue). Other music forms of the Baroque period are the chorale prelude, Mass and oratorio,