The Baroque period clearly began around 1600 and was ended with the death of Bach in 1750. During this period of music, after a revolution from the renaissance period, many new techniques and styles of musical composition and performance emerged. This started with the implementation and growing affection towards homophony, where a solo instrument is backed by one or more accompanists. The number of accompanists could vary from one to a whole orchestra. Such music saw the emergence of the musical style, Opera. This came about when the music was written as an accompaniment for the solo/s coming from the voice/s. The coming of baroque homophony saw the beginning of the new age of music. Another compositional technique that emerged during the baroque period was the figured bass, and the basso continuo, which is the section comprising of the lower stringed instruments, mainly the double bass, cello, or harpsichord. The word baroque means to many people, extravagance or flamboyance. Some people would argue that the baroque period saw music without emotion, but I believe that it was quite the opposite after listening to and playing some of Bach's concertos.

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As you can see, many techniques and changes were made to violins and the violin repertoire during the baroque period, and these changes helped to shape the music we hear today being performed. Some performers have chosen to retain the style and structure of the baroque violin and perform with these instruments, but the occurrence of this is diminishing.

In the sonatas of 1681, the conventional tuning of 5ths was a rule rather than an exception. Biber went in totally the other direction when he wrote 16 Mystery Sonatas for violin and bass, in which 14 of these required scordatura. They were completed around 1676.

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