Early Music Collection

Early Music Collection

The Early Music Collection is a wide-ranging survey that traces the history of Western music from plainchant, the music of the Catholic Church, through polyphony, to the end of the 17th century. It includes leading ensembles and instrumentalists. Many of the individual albums have been critically lauded. Recent years have brought a vast expansion in our understanding and knowledge of early music periods. There has been investigation into the repertoire and techniques of other ages, coupled with a movement that has favored the use of instruments and ways of playing them that are more or less authentic. Even where surviving historical instruments or modern reproductions of them are not used, the styles of performance have been influenced. Above all the myth of unending progress has been abandoned in favor of an evaluation of each period and type of music on its own terms. Early Music, in fact, has become a flourishing industry, stimulated by the remarkable growth in production and distribution of early music. For our present purposes we limit the term Early Music to cover a period ranging from plainchant to the end of the 17th century. The period that followed, the age of Bach and Handel and the great synthesis of the Late Baroque, is generally more familiar to listeners and is, in any case, another story.
Country USA
Brand NAXOS BOX SETS
Manufacturer Naxos Box Sets
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2019-06-14
UnitCount 30
Format Box set
UPCs 747313329731
EANs 0747313329731

Country	USA
Brand	NAXOS BOX SETS
Manufacturer	Naxos Box Sets
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2019-06-14
UnitCount	30
Format	Box set
UPCs	747313329731
EANs	0747313329731

Early Music Collection

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