The Baroque is musical theater in the broadest sense. Opera is born (Peri, Euridice, 1600; Monteverdi, Orfeo, 1607), along with the oratorio, the concerto (Vivaldi — over 500 concertos!), the solo and ensemble sonata. The figured bass emerges — a system of marking harmony with numbers above a bass line, allowing performers to improvise accompaniment.
The highest achievements lie in the works of J.S. Bach (the Passions, Mass in B minor, Well-Tempered Clavier), G.F. Handel (the oratorio Messiah), A. Vivaldi (The Four Seasons), H. Purcell. In Ukraine, the Baroque produced partes singing (Mykola Dyletsky), from which the choral concerto of Dmytro Bortniansky, Maksym Berezovsky, and Artemiy Vedel emerged in the second half of the 18th century — sacred music of world-class stature.
