... ; they played more quietly, and at a lower pitch. Sometimes despite the skilful counterpoint and glorious elements in their work, you can sense that Baroque composers were not yet entirely comfortable with the orchestra. Musical ideas can be passed round the orchestra in a rather disorganized way, e.g. If an ... violin, then why not? There was not a real understanding of how to write sympathetic and playable music. It's still true, however, that the baroque period was the turning point for the orchestra. The harpsichord was important because not all orchestras were conducted by a conduct...

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... The modernist movement can be seen to lie in the emergence during 1900 - 1914. The late 19th century saw Neo Gothic and Neo Baroque begin to lose their definition degenerating into an elaboration, which demonstrated little capacity for achieving architectural expression. At the turn of the century ... of the pre war futurists movement. Its revolutionary concern for the restructuring of society and its worship of the machine. They preferred the classical style. The modern movement in the America was high rise office development and was seen as loose broad, inclusive less intense then moder...

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