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Based on the presentation, I think the topic that interested me the most is the Baroque Music. I showed interest in the Baroque Music because I think it is really attention grabbing by how the many musical terms and concepts from that musical era is still used today. I researched more on The Baroque Music era and found out that the Baroque Music was correspondingly the period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion. And the Music also used clear, strong, details to easily interpret what was used in order to produce drama, tension, exuberance, grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, theater, and music. And that there were many instruments that were used in the Baroque Music such as string instruments like

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