The baroque violin

The Baroque Violin and it’s Repertoire. The Baroque period clearly began around 1600 and was ended with the death of Bach in 1750. During this period of music, after a revolution from the renaissance period, many new techniques and styles of musical composition and performance emerged. This started with the implementation and growing affection towards homophony, where a solo instrument is backed by one or more accompanists. The number of accompanists could vary from one to …

…other composers who implemented this technique, but Biber was probably the most famous for doing so. As you can see, many techniques and changes were made to violins and the violin repertoire during the baroque period, and these changes helped to shape the music we hear today being performed. Some performers have chosen to retain the style and structure of the baroque violin and perform with these instruments, but the occurrence of this is diminishing.