Classical music is a tricky genre, mainly because to the uninformed everything before jazz sounds like it! Indeed,

Classical music and Baroque music both use orchestras to produce their distinctive sounds, but the way in which

each does it is truly different. For example, Baroque music is very heavy, whereas Classical music is light, almost

airy.

Indeed, Classical music greatly emphasized homophonic melodies, meaning that there was a single melody that all the

instruments played, instead of the layered melodies of the Baroque period. This allowed for Classical pieces to be

much more powerful, whereas Baroque pieces were just pretty in comparison.