A key thing to remember about the baroque period: it was almost all improvised - the original jazz, if you will. Tonal harmony was one of my favourite papers a

A key thing to remember about the baroque period: it was almost all improvised - the original jazz, if you will. Tonal harmony was one of my favourite papers at music school, learning the rules of harmony to compose pieces like this from scratch. I wasn’t great at it, but it’s an amazing skill to observe in those that can do it. I once had a guitar masterclass and the tutor just stood up, jumped on the piano and improvised a fugue. Our minds were blown.