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

Words nearby early music

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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.
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When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
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Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.
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I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.
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What an amazing thing to be able to listen to any music you want, a whole world of bands.
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Do you think that as we get older our thoughts shift to the more abstract, the music, than the definite, the lyrics?
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The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
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In the early stages of chronic nephritis, when diagnosis is difficult, it is usually normal.
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He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.
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Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
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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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