Defend the use of Baroque and Classical styles in church music. Use specific musical examples to support your points.

Music is a form of art involving use of sound in time to express ideas and emotions through elements of rhythm, harmony and melody. According to Victor Hugo, “music expresses what cannot be said and which is difficult to be silent on.

Although many people know the various types of music and even composers of great songs, very few people know the origin of the several types of music genres. It is difficult to estimate the time when music came to being but it must have been a long time ago. There was a Hurrian song found in a clay tablets that dated back to approximately 1400 BC; making it the oldest surviving noted form of music. Other than that, music instruments have been discovered in China with some dated back as early as 7000BC (Montagu pg.23).

In this review however, the main topic of discussion is the comparison between two forms of music: The Classical and the Baroque styles of music. These are the two distinct types of music that originated through the 1600’s evolving through 1900’s (Montagu pg.23). During this period, these two forms changed the normal performance of music and brought about new aspects to it.

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