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Early music is based mainly on the music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. Many people like to define Early Music as ending in 1750, with the death of J. ... As with everything else, Baroque music ended gradually and sporadically, if we are to say that it ended all. Perhaps the significant factor defining these eras as “early music” is that they do not have a continuous performance tradition. In other words, this music ceased to be performed after its time had passed and needed to be revived in our own era. This is not true of the “classical’ music of Mozart, Beethoven, et al. ... This means that, to some degree, it is this revival which dominates EM (that is, early music as a movement), at least in spirit. ... Were revived relatively early and therefore have a fairly long performance tradition which is not dependent on the present early music movement. Now we are seeing an increasingly large number of performances of Mozart, Beethoven, and others in the content of early music; this further muddies the waters. There is the question of pre-Medieval music. While early musicians would undoubtedly be happy to claim it as their own, unfortunately there is very little surviving evidence about music from earlier times. Indeed, there are no music manuscripts from Western Europe at all. ... Since music has also been a performance tradition, classical concerts represent divergences from that tradition, based upon a new look at the original context of a composition. New composers sometimes talk about capturing the “original intentions” of an early composer. ... In the case of pre-Baroque music, there are really little choices but to attempt to recreate the sound world of the era, in order to even approach the surviving compositions. Of course, that’s what many “early music” performers are doing, and they are consequently reviving a vast body of superlative music, which had previously been effectively last to us. This is, probably, the core of “early music.” Music today has been influenced much by early music. From a broader perspective, it is also a thoroughly modern idea that the “composer’s intentions” should matter more than what a performer chooses to do with the music in front of the composer. ... Music is played very different, because people interpret things differently, which is why music has changed so much over time. Early music was the start of a great change in sounds. In the beginning, with early music we can tell that the ideas were mainly from the composer. Over time, people realized that they can interpret music in many different ways also. This was the first movement into new music, and I believe that early music will be played for well past my lifetime. ... The start of the first real American music. With the culture change from Early, classical music. ... Some of the most accomplished musicians of our time have devoted themselves to a lifelong study of Jazz or classical music, and few exceptional musicians have actually mastered both. A comparison of classical Jazz music will yield some interesting results and could also lead to an appreciation of the abilities needed to perform or compose there kinds of music. The music called classical, found in stores and performed regularly by symphonies around the world, spans a length of time from 1600 up to the present. ... The classical period of music actually spans a time from of 1750 to 1800; thus, the term Classical is a misnomer and could more correctly be changed to Early Music or European Art Music. ... Until the twentieth century with Gershwin and a few others did we find American composers writing this kind of art music. For the sake of convention, we can refer to Early Music as Classical music. Jazz is a distinctively American form of music, and its history occupies a much smaller span of time. Its origins are found in the early 1900s as some dance band leaders in the southern U. ... began playing music that combined ragtime and blues.
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