Baroque Pop
Baroque pop is pop and rock music that uses classical instruments and arrangements, such as harpsichord, strings, oboe and French horn.
It appeared in the mid-1960s, when producers and bands in the United States and Britain began adding elements of baroque and classical music to pop songs. The result is melodic, ornate and often wistful, with layered harmonies and orchestral detail. It faded in the 1970s and returned in the 1990s as chamber pop, and the name is still used for dramatic, orchestral pop today.
Artists it is known for: The Beach Boys, The Left Banke, The Zombies.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States and United Kingdom, mid-1960s
- Also called
- baroque rock
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 7%
About 6,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have baroque pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Baroque Pop artists
Sufjan Stevens
Florence + The Machine
The Beach Boys
Kate Bush
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Kinks
The Last Dinner Party
Weyes Blood
Arcade Fire
Vampire Weekend
The baroque pop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.