Baroque pop contested much of the time's low fidelity musical aesthetic. In classical music, the term "Baroque" is used to describe the art music of Europe approximately between the years 1600 and 1750, with some of its most prominent composers including J. S. Bach and Antonio Vivaldi. Much of the instrumentation of baroque pop is akin to that of the late Baroque period or the early Classical period, chronologically defined as the period of European music from 1690 to 1760 and stylistically defined by balanced phrases, clarity and beauty, using string sections, woodwinds and brass instruments. Baroque pop, stylistically, fuses elements of
Baroque violin playing than is typical of Romantic repertoire. The use of vibrato continuously dates from the early 20th century, from around the time of Fritz Kreisler, and is completely inappropriate for Baroque music. Nonetheless, vibrato was used for effect in the Baroque period, on long or stressed notes, but never on short notes or at the end of slurs. Leopold Mozart's advice was: The tremolo [vibrato] is an ornamentation which arises from Nature herself and which can be used charmingly on a long note, not only by good instrumentalists but clever singers... Now because the tremolo is not played purely on