Ground Bass

 Ground bass: Ground bass will have a clear, simple bass line. It is a repeated bass line. It is played by the Cello or on the bass notes of a harpsichord.This video is of Pachelbel's cannon, it has a ground bass, played on the cello.

 This piece is Vivaldi's Spring from 'The Four Seasons'. In it you can clearly hear the ornamentation, it is lively and joyous. 

The Baroque Period

The Baroque period was a time from the 1600's to the 1750's. It was a time of great importance for art architecture and most importantly; music.

 The Baroque style was ornate yet bold. The artistic period used exaggerated motion and detail to create drama, suspense, grandeur and tension. Baroque musicians used ornamentation (frilly, extra twiddly parts) to create a flourish in their music. Most sheet music would be written as a 'skeleton', musicians were expected to add to it with ornamentation because they knew the style so well.

Instruments:
 Harpsichord: the strings inside the harpsichord are plucked to produce a unique sound rather than hammers that are inside the piano. Additionally, the piano wasn't developed yet.
 Lots of stringed instruments such as the violin and the cello. The organ, flute, trumpets, horns, oboe and bassoon.
 Smaller groups of musicians  played in homes and the music they played was called Chamber Music.
 Baroque was the birth of opera. Opera being something including singing, orchestra and drama, basically a play that was sung.