music
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.