The word Baroque comes from Portuguese.
There, Baroque means something like strange. In Portuguese, it was first used for irregularly-shaped pearls.



It was first used in France to mean works of art that did not follow the current trend.
Baroque  was a Western cultural era,
which began near the turn of the 17th century in Rome. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music. In music, the term 'Baroque' applies to the final period of dominance of imitative counterpoint, where different voices and instruments echo each other but at different pitches, sometimes inverting the echo, and even reversing thematic material.