Baroque period (music)
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Balthasar Denner's portrait of George Frideric Handel (1733)
The baroque period in classical music saw a greater emphasis on detail and ornamentation, and a growing subject matter in addition to the religious celebrations of the renaissance period.
Baroque music tends to have a strict metre and absence of modulation.
Prominent composers of this era include: