Complexity played an important role in Baroque music, which can be described as “extravagance and structure”. As new possibilities arose, composers were able to make their music more complex. The emergence of new instruments, like the brass and woodwind instruments, increased flexibility in tone color. This allowed for more expression in music. The improvement of instruments such as the violin, which Stradivari and other makers perfected, and the organ, allowed for the emergence of virtuosos such as Antonio Vivaldi and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier made for scientifically-based tuning. In the Baroque era, new genres emerged, such as the opera, the concerto, and the fugue. The opera, a highly extravagant genre, combines
