The Baroque Era.
The transitioning period was the Baroque Era. Music composers started fusing embellishments with complex melodies as different instruments like the violin and cello came into being. Small orchestras started to form and two different forms of music arose-sonatas and concertos. Opera became popular as did new instruments like the pipe organ, harpsichord which added more depth to orchestras. Few of the best known composers of this period were Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Corelli, Telemann, Couperin and Scarlatti.
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Western music has had a long list of musical development over the few hundred years and it's all thanks to our forefathers that the current Western music thrives, based on the vast expense of music theory. Some people coined this term as classical music.
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