early music

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noun

music of the medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, especially revived and played on period instruments; European music after ancient music and before the classical music era, from the beginning of the Middle Ages to about 1750.

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Origin of early music

First recorded in 1885–90

OTHER WORDS FROM early music

early-music, adjectiveearly musician, noun

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How to use early music in a sentence

This month, the Fleet Foxes came out with their fourth album, which reclaims the warmth of their early music while still creating a new, meticulously crafted sound.
Everything Our Editors Loved in September|The Editors|October 8, 2020|Outside Online
And surely with such changes as are implied in that past tense some of the notes of life's early music are silenced forever.
The Book of Christmas|Thomas K. Hervey
In addition she had to practice many a piece of early music which he wished to hear for his work.
The Song of Songs|Hermann Sudermann
Then follows a discussion of song-poems and of the early music to which they were set.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921|Various

British Dictionary definitions for early music

early music

noun

music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, sometimes also including music of the baroque and early classical periods

adjective early-music

of or denoting an approach to musical performance emphasizing the use of period instruments and historically researched scores and playing techniquesthe early-music movement

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