page_title: Baroque pop
section_title: Dissipation and revival (1970s–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Baroque pop / History / Dissipation and revival (1970s–present)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Divine Comedy performing at the Summer Sundae festival, Leicester, 10 August 2007. Français&#160;: The Divine Comedy en concert lors du festival Summer Sundae, à Leicester, Angleterre, en 2007.
context_page_description: Baroque pop is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music. It emerged in the mid 1960s as artists pursued a majestic, orchestral sound and is identifiable for its appropriation of Baroque compositional styles and dramatic or melancholic gestures. Harpsichords figure prominently, while oboes, French horns, and string quartets are also common.
  Although harpsichords had been deployed for a number of pop hits since the 1940s, starting in the 1960s, some record producers increasingly placed the instrument in the foreground of their arrangements. Inspired partly by the Beatles' song "In My Life", various groups were incorporating baroque and classical instrumentation by early 1966. The term "baroque rock" was coined in promotional material for the Left Banke, who used harpsichords and violins in their arrangements and whose 1966 song "Walk Away Renée" exemplified the style.
  Baroque pop's mainstream popularity faded by the 1970s, partially because punk rock, disco and hard rock took over; nonetheless, music was still produced within the genre's tradition.
context_section_description: The "quaintness" of baroque pop and the use of violins and classical guitar became the target of parody at the end of the psychedelic era. In the 1990s, chamber pop would derive from the "spirit" of baroque pop, characterized by an infusion of orchestral arrangements or classical style composition. It originated as a response to the lo-fi production that dominated in the 1990s. Between the 1990s and 2010s, baroque pop has enjoyed a revival with bands like the Divine Comedy and Panic! at the Disco.
caption: The Irish band the Divine Comedy contributed to a baroque pop revival beginning in the 1990s.[1]
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