minstrel: Re: Early music cut off?

[Tadhg O Cuileannain]

 Tadhg O Cuileannain <tadhg at flash.net> wrote:Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 18:35:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Tadhg O Cuileannain 
Subject: Re: minstrel: Re: Early music cut off?
To: MotleySong at aol.com


I think early music has more to do with the intent to play the music in a historically authentic way.  It started with baroque and earlier, but now there are people who play Mozart on authentic period instruments and I've even heard of a recording of Debussy being done with an authentic "period" 1890s piano... 
Tadhg 
 MotleySong at aol.com wrote: En un mensaje con fecha 12/31/2002 8:06:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, dmusica at sbcglobal.net escribe:


Does anyone know what the cut off point of were Early music ends and
Classical begins? It seems sometimes Baroque is lumped in [...]

I've been getting the impression that "early music" in the non-SCA world does tend to include Baroque.  As far as I have experienced, "early music" goes up through the 17th c.  I get this impression from the Early Music America magazine, from the fact that rec.music.early has discussions on Baroque topics.  And so forth.

I always laugh when my non-SCA friends refer to Purcell as "early."  "Early?" say I, "oh, no, that's not *early*"  :)

Just my two cents.
    - Sancha 
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