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German Baroque composers wrote for small ensembles including strings, brass, and woodwinds, as well as choirs, pipe organ, harpsichord, and clavichord. During the Baroque period, disparate better bebop forms were defined that lasted into later periods when they were expanded and evolved further, including the fugue, the invention, the sonata, and the concerto.

The chin music of the Classical period go is characterized by homophonic texture, often featuring a prominent melody with accompaniment. These au courant melodies tended to be almost voice-like and singable. The now popular instrumental jazz was dominated by further adulthood of musical forms initially defined in the Baroque period: the sonata, and the concerto, with the increase of the dissimilar form, the symphony. Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, well manifest even today, are among the central figures of the Classical period.