I'm wondering if anyone else is intersted in Early Music? When I say early music, I mean all music before the seventeen hundreds-- the middle ages and renneisance. Most disscusion of "classical" music tends to be limited to the Baroque period and later, so I thought I'd see if anyone has anything to say about chant, early polyphony, motets, whatever...2 responses total.
I'm interested in the music of Elizabethan England -- the works of composers like William Byrd, Giles Farnaby, John Bull. Used to play a lot of the pieces from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book on the harpsichord.
I like quite a bit of early music, but for the most part not passionately enough to have really learned that much about it. I know a moderate amount about chant (including some about later varieties), some about early polyphony & motets & madrigals, pavannes, etc., but not systematically at all. So by all means let those who know more say on.
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