The appropriate response is baroque. Looking at some of music history's most prominent perfect works of art to a distorted pearl may appear to be peculiar to us today, however to the nineteenth century faultfinders who connected the term, the music of Bach and Handel's period sounded excessively ornamented and overstated. Having since a long time ago shed its defamatory meanings, "baroque" is currently just a helpful catch-for one of the wealthiest and most various periods in music history.
