One that eschewed fretboard gymnastics, preferring carefully crafted riffs and short solos, in which every single note had a purpose and every lyric had a story.
Perhaps the best example is one of Cage's most famous compositions— a solo piano piece consisting of nothing but musical rests for four minutes and 33 seconds.
So the Recorder as we know it comes out of medieval Europe, but it goes mainstream during the Baroque period when famous composers like Bach, Handel, Vivaldi are composing solos for the Recorder.