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[Highlighted & annotated extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘THE CLASSICAL PERIOD’ ‘Precursors of the Classical style’ ‘The *Rococo style galant’**]

‘As the pendulum swung from the predominantly romantic Baroque period toward the classical period, there was an inevitable overlapping of the old and the new. While Bach was composing his intricate and erudite polyphony,*** his sons were reflecting a new ideal, the Rococo. Fostered by the court of the French king Louis XV, whose life-style was far less formal than that of his illustrious great-grandfather, the Rococo ideal was artistic expression dedicated to elegance, frivolity, and gracefulness; a work of art must be delicate, playful, entertaining, and immediately appealing. The result was often artificial and unrealistic, but it succeeded in capturing the sentimental and hedonistic attitudes of the times.’

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*{Vis[ual]: Early 18^thC[entury]

**– (c[irca] 1770s)

***{(re Baroque)}

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