Music GCSE
Baroque period characteristics
What Baroque period characteristics means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Baroque period characteristics
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Features such as a continuo part with figured bass, terraced dynamics, an ornament such as a trill, a fugal or imitative texture, a dance-derived binary movement, or a major/minor tonal scheme with a strong cadence.
Topics that use Baroque period characteristics
- Component 3: Appraising - Knowledge and understanding (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Listening evidence
- Musical elements vocabulary
- Overall form and named structures
- Period recognition
- Precise versus vague language
- Relating structure to audible features
- Repetition, contrast and variation
- Section boundaries and cadences
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