{The History of Western Music [continued (13)]}[5th February 1991]

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[ Highlighted extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘The tonal era and after: 1600 to the present’ ‘THE BAROQUE ERA’ ‘Instrumental music’ ‘The sonata and the concerto’]

‘The major new categories of instrumental music during the Baroque period were the sonata and the concerto.... The fundamental principle of the concerto was that of contrast of instrumental groups and musical textures.’

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*[Encyclopaedia Britannica 24: 557]

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