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Music During Arcangelo Corelli's Time

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During Arcangelo Corelli's time, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece, is written in a particular key was developed. This approach is still widely used in popular western music today. Advanced and professional musicians were expected to be fairly good improvisers when it comes to solo melodic lines, as well as the musical parts which helped provide the harmonic support for the melody, or even the main themes of a piece. Composers and performers typically used more detailed and complicated musical ornamentation.Those were also mostly improvised by the performers; such musical ornaments include trills. The nine years war ran from 1688-1697 taking place during Arcangelo Corelli's lifetime. It was a major conflict between

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