Renaissance-era lute and viol, depicted in a detail from a painting by Francesco Francia
Major eras of Western classical music
Early music
Medieval
c. 500–1400
Transition to Renaissance
Renaissance
c. 1400–1600
Transition to Baroque
Common practice period
Baroque
c. 1600–1750
Transition to Classical
Classical
c. 1730–1820
Transition to Romantic
Romantic
c. 1800–1910
Transition to Modernism
New music
Modernism
from c. 1890
Contemporary
from c. 1945
• 20th-century • 21st-century
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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.
Earlymusic generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating...
An earlymusic revival is a renewed interest in music from ancient history or prehistory. The general discussion of how to perform music from ancient...
Earlymusic festivals is a generic term for musical festivals focused on music before Beethoven, or including historically informed performance of later...
Earlymusic of Britain and Ireland, from the earliest recorded times until the beginnings of the Baroque in the 17th century, was a diverse and rich culture...
The EarlyMusic Consort of London was a British music ensemble in the late 1960s and 1970s which specialised in historically informed performance of Medieval...
than starting from the early 14th-century ars nova, the Trecento music was treated by musicology as a coda to Medieval music and the new era dated from...
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Music is generally agreed...
courts in Western Europe, surviving early medieval music is chiefly religious, monophonic and vocal, with the music of ancient Greece and Rome influencing...
The EarlyMusic Company is a publishing house specializing in music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The EarlyMusic Company was created in 2008 when the...
EarlyMusic History is a peer-reviewed academic journal published annually by Cambridge University Press, which specialises in the study of music from...
Indianapolis EarlyMusic (IEM) is a non-profit organization established in Indianapolis in 1966 to organize concerts featuring music of the medieval,...
Early Serbian Music is a Cassette and Videocassette album by Ensemble Renaissance, released in 1989 on the PGP RTB label. It is their third album with...
The EarlyMusic Shop is an earlymusic store specialising in the sale and distribution of reproduction medieval musical instruments, with two showrooms...
Margaret Bent (1999). "The Grammar of EarlyMusic: Preconditions for Analysis", Tonal Structures of EarlyMusic. New York: Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-2388-3...
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Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as earlymusic, preceding the common...
The Theatre of EarlyMusic is a choir and Baroque instrumental ensemble based in Montreal, and later in Toronto. It is conducted by Daniel Taylor. The...
Early British popular music, in the sense of commercial music enjoyed by the people, can be seen to originate in the 16th and 17th centuries with the...
harpsichord or pipe organ, a tradition that some 20th-century and 21st-century earlymusic ensembles continue. Orchestras play a wide range of repertoire, including...
music, between the earlymusic of the Medieval and Renaissance periods and the development of fully fledged and formalised orchestral classical music...
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