The Academy of Early Music

Hearing music differently

by James Leonard

posted 5/1/2006

What exactly is early music, anyway? It depends on what you mean by "early." Early Rolling Stones is one thing, but early Muddy Waters is something else again — something played with a different bat and ball but in the same ballpark. But while early Beethoven is one thing, early Byrd is something else altogether. Early or late, Beethoven, like most composers

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