Examples of baroque

• His musical structures are often contrapuntal and baroque but his upward thrust is unwaveringly romantic and dominated by long vocal phrases.

• To be fair, it is difficult to know whether the rather baroque-looking machinery of (10) may, after all, turn out to be lean and necessary.

• Similarly, sermons preached during profession ceremonies or funerals of the city's nuns retained their ecstatic, baroque rhetoric.

• The second involves the acquisition of commonplace patterns that were fundamental to the baroque composer and keyboardist.

• They lamented the demise of baroque bel canto and of the castrato's voice.

• More importantly, although his normative theory of discourse elaborates some of what is involved in discourse, it is problematic and baroque.

• It is a baroque city with political intent in its design.

• I always wanted to write music that combined the impact of rock music with the kind of expressivity of baroque music.

• Ironically, the neglect has preserved for us undamaged an authentic monument of a late baroque theatre, with all its technical equipment, stagecraft, scenery, and costume.

• Home to a nomadic hippy, it was encrusted with a bristling baroque fantasy of plastic toys, plastic landscapes, silly scenes and shrines.

• Accordingly, the heroic ego in these baroque plays of labyrinthine intrigue and changing fortune had to prove itself by resisting the onslaught of affects.

• One of the characteristic features of baroque scores is the rather limited use they make of articulation marks.

• Much of his career as an author and editor is reflected in his work as a violinist and baroque violinist.

• This obsession for light, linked to baroque culture, co-operated with the ephemeral architecture to increase the sense of fragility and escape from reality.

• The structure of his analysis is clear, providing a linear narrative from the baroque context to the changes that occurred in the late eighteenth century.