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Purcell's music features ornaments such as trills and mordents in bars 8 and 11. These are typical of the Baroque period, as are the melismas used in bars 12 and 16 which are used to emphasise the importa...

There are 5 keys which a Bach chorale could modulate to*. Two of these are the dominant and the subdominant (based on the 5th and 4th degree of the home key respectively). If the home key is major then th...

Clear harmonic structure is used. The melody strays little from its main purpose and most key changes are heavily related.

Sonata form is formed of an exposition, development section and a recapitulation. The exposition comprises of a first subject, a bridge passage, a second subject and a codetta. The development section bui...

Bach; Monteverdi; Handel; Scarlatti; Albinoni; Corelli