Flora and fauna [edit]. Coral reefs and tropical fish are abundant in the waters around the cayos. Dolphins, marine turtles and even some coastal caimans live in the remoter mangroves. Birds include pelicans, flamingoes, egrets and the odd scarlet ibis. On the islands, vegetation is sparse and generally adapted to the dry, salty environment.
-Terraced dynamics: The sudden alternation from one dynamic level to another. -Sudden alternations between loud and soft.-. -The most characteristic feature of baroque music is its use of basso continuo. -Basso continuo: is a bass part together with numbers (figures) that specified chords to be played above it.ate Baroque: -Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time. Musical Characteristics of the Baroque Period: -Affections in baroque usage refers to emotional states or moods of music. -A baroque musical composition usually expresses one basic mood within the same movement.
Baroque means 'absurd' or 'grotesque'. This term was used by people who thought that the forms of the classical buildings should never have been used in times after Greek and Roman periods. For, in baroque the classical forms were used, like in Renaissance and the mannerism.aroque has borrowed many things from Renaissance and mannerism, but there are certainly differences. * Differences between baroque and the Renaissance/mannerism The classical forms were used soberly in the Renaissance, with especial attention on clearness and realism.