Texture: Late Baroque more polyphonic/contrapuntal, Use of Basso Continuo (keyboard & sustaining bass line), Melody: Long and flowing, Decorate with ornaments (appoggiaturas, trills, mordents), Harmony: Chords based on major & minor scales (not modes), Tierce de picardie, Suspensions, False relations, Functional harmony & perfect cadences, Realisation (by the continuo from figured bass), Repeated chord progression or ground bass, Rhythm: Continuous driving, energetic rhythms in fast pieces, Dynamics: Terraced dynamics, Mood: Single mood or "affection" for a whole movement,

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