Instruments in a Baroque Orchestra

Video Transcript

"Hi, it's Christian. We're here in the Murray location of Summerhays Music in Utah and today we're going to talk about what is a Baroque Orchestra. Basically Baroque Orchestra, the term itself goes back to a, into the Baroque era that is define 17th century until the 18th century. And we have to understand nowadays that music was different than music that was composed, so the necessities for expressing that music and the musical ideas of the composers where very different than nowadays; so it is understandable that the orchestra that divides the whole component itself was reduced to a considerable number of not more than, mostly thirty players. We had String Section and we had a Woodwinds and later on an Oboe and also a Transverse Flute were added and this was around 1750 and going towards the 19th century this changed and the orchestra would grow in size."