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The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe.
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement. The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance of courts, grand staircases and reception rooms of sequentially increasing opulence.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word "barroco", Spanish "barroco", or French "baroque", all of which refer to a "rough or imperfect pearl", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller. Others derive it from the mnemonic term "Baroco", a supposedly laboured form of syllogism in logical Scholastica.
In the moonlight I see my memories
in a new light, they seem so real to me
I remember, you know I remember
And the starlight tripping in the sky
come on, we can still go there tonight
I remember, you know I remember
We haven't changed
we just feel a little strange
we haven't changed
we're just a little bit deranged
In the moonlight I think about the past
and in hindsight, I knew it wouldn't last
I remember, you know I remember
And the starlight skipping on the bay
come on, we can still go there today
I remember, you know I remember
We haven't changed
we just feel a little strange
we haven't changed
we're just a little bit deranged
In the moonlight I see my memories
I realize I need you here with me
I remember, you know I remember
We haven't changed
we just feel a little strange
we haven't changed
we're just a little bit deranged