Baroque music expressed one basic mood throughout a composition through the use of specific rhythms or melodic patterns associated with those moods. the different moods that composers represented, such as sorrow, grief, or joy, were called .

Read the excerpt from act l, scene i of romeo and juliet. what is the cause of romeo's despair? benvolio: groan! why, no; but sadly tell me who romeo has wronged benvolio. romeo misses his friends and family romeo wants to fight the capulets. romeo is in love with a woman romeo: bid a sick man in sadness make his will: ah! word ill urg'd to one that is so ill. in sadness, cousin, i do love a woman save and exit