early music

noun

1. 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.

early music

noun

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

1. of or denoting an approach to musical performance emphasizing the use of period instruments and historically researched scores and playing techniques

   the early-music movement

Other Word Forms

• early-music adjective
• early musician noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of early music¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

It's a very different picture from their early music videos, with the band performing synchronised dance moves in dark rooms under bright lights, or striding through the streets in tank tops preaching the virtues of One Love.

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Yet while “life happened,” as Simpson puts it, the serrated guitars and snotty-sweet vocals of her early music emerged as a key influence on younger artists making new connections between pop, rock and punk.

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HIP came about when the early music movement discovered that trying to re-create, say, the way a Handel opera might have sounded in the 18th century by using period instruments with what was believed to be period practice techniques proved deadly boring.

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The music was all of our time with the exception of three small pieces of early music, but even that was modernized.

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Last week, the New York Post’s Page Six reported that Braun — who once managed Swift’s nemesis Kanye West and whom Swift has accused of bullying her — was “encouraging” the new deal between the singer and Shamrock Capital, the L.A.-based investment firm that bought the rights to Swift’s early music from Braun in 2020.

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