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Baroque composers such as Bach and used a variety of techniques in their work. A commonly used feature was the Ground Bass. This was a pattern, used in the bassline of a piece of music, that was repeated ...

Parallel fifths are an example of poor voice leading, especially in chorales. The melodic lines should be easy to sing. Lines composed using parallel fifths are incredibly difficult to sing and are not co...

A cadence is a chordal progression that ends a phrase or piece of music. Perfect and plagal cadences provide a harmonically stable end to the music, whereas the imperfect and interrupted cadences make the...

The ritornello form was one of the musical structures developed in the Baroque period. It is characterised by a recurring A section in between new sections of music, and is often described as 'ABACA', whe...

The process of Italian unification, know as the Risorgimento, was a long and arduous process that lead to great struggles in Italy all the way up to the rise of Mussolini in 1921. It was the political and...