people like to define Early Music as ending in 1750, with the death of J.S. Bach. This is a handy

date, but it misses the various stylistic changes taking place around that time, i.e. the emergence of

the gallant and pre-classical idioms in close proximity to the final flowering of the baroque proper.

To add even more confusion, this is also not clear-cut. 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. Which

possesses a continuous performance tradition. This means that, to some degree, it is this revival

which dominates EM (that is, early music as a movement), at least in spirit. Of course, things are not

clear-cut here either. For instance, late

song for dancing. With the advent of Bop, improvisation assumed great importance. The musicians

Walrus" is one of the first true examples of Paul's drug use and identifies with his fantasy of being a

undoubtedly be happy to claim it as their own, unfortunately there is very little surviving evidence

memorized the chord changes to a song, along with the melody, but then played very loosely and in

today. Early in their career, The Beatles were strongly influenced by American music. They

influences of Brits such as William Shakespeare turned it into the love ballad it is today. Another

of performances of Mozart, Beethoven, and others in the content of early music; this further

by piano, string bass and drums. With the advent of Fusion, electric instruments such as the electric

music was played at the same time in other places. The most prominent exponents of this early

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