1. Baroque
Instrumental Music

2. 1600 1. Start of the Baroque Period 1600-1750
2.  Start of the Common Practice Period
3. End of the Renaissance Period
4.  First opera was in 1600

3. Movement – a part of a work, sounds complete in itself with a beginning middle and end.  Think of it like a chapter in a book

4. Vivaldi Spring
Solo Concerto - multi-movement work for orchestra and a soloist – features cadenza
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Cadenza - the part in a concerto where the orchestra stops playing and the soloist is featured.

5. Vivaldi Spring (cont.)
Program music – music that has an extra-musical idea to go along with it.  It might be a story, an idea, a picture, or a text.