Early music
Channel: all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA
Date: 2022-01-09

Early music, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10033 / CC BY SA 3.0

#Early_music
#Traditional_music
Renaissance-era lute and viol, depicted in a detail from a painting by Francesco Francia Early music generally comprises Medieval music （500–1400） and Renaissance music （1400–1600）, but can also include Baroque music （1600–1750）.
Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical music.
Interpretations of historical scope of "early music" vary.
The original Academy of Ancient Music formed in 1726 defined "Ancient" music as works written by composers who lived before the end of the 16th century.
Johannes Brahms and his contemporaries would have understood Early music to range from the High Renaissance and Baroque, while some scholars consider
that Early music should include the music of ancient Greece or Rome before 500 AD （a period that is generally covered by the term Ancient music）.
Music critic Michael Kennedy excludes Baroque, defining Early music as "musical compositions from [the] earliest times up to and including music of [the] Renaissance period".
Musicologist Thomas Forrest Kelly considers that the essence of Early music is the revival of "forgotten" musical repertoire and that the term is intertwined with the rediscovery of old performance practice.
According to the UK's National Centre for Early Music, the term "early music" refers to both a repertory （European music written between 1250 and 1750 embracing Medieval,
Renaissance and the Baroque） – and a historically informed approach to the performance of that music.
Today, the understanding of "Early music" has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed
on the basis of surviving scores, treatises, instruments and other contemporary evidence." The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin,
modern performers of Early music In the later 20th century there was a resurgence of interest in the perfo...