Pink Floyd’s music was rock & roll, but it experimented. It was theatrical – at times baroque. I thought it might be fun to look at other 1970s songs – songs with one foot in classic rock ...
The band drew on the music of jazz-based vocal ... harpsichord and strings added to the song’s poignancy, but also made it a flagship track for the burgeoning Baroque Pop / Baroque Rock genre ...
the madrigal was a popular song form and there were also many types of dance music, eg the galliard or the pavane. Binary form has two sections. It was commonly used by Baroque composers ...