Advances in technology, such as the invention of the telescope, made the finite seem infinite (“What is Baroque Music?”). Great thinkers such as Locke and Descartes began questioning the existence of mankind, and geniuses like Rembrandt and Shakespeare began offering a new outlook through the arts. The growth of the middle class created a new group into the artistic culture that no longer belonged only to the church and court. One of the major philosophical threads that ran through Baroque music actually came from the Renaissance interest in the ideas from the ancient Greek and Roman
Advances in technology, such as the invention of the telescope, made the finite seem infinite (“What is Baroque Music?”). Great thinkers such as Locke and Descartes began questioning the existence of mankind, and geniuses like Rembrandt and Shakespeare began offering a new outlook through the arts. The growth of the middle class created a new group into the artistic culture that no longer belonged only to the church and court. One of the major philosophical threads that ran through Baroque music actually came from the Renaissance interest in the ideas from the ancient Greek and Roman