Editing Early music (section)

==Terminology==
Interpretations of historical scope of "early music" vary. The original [[Academy of Ancient Music]] formed in 1726 defined "Ancient" music as works written by composers who lived before the end of the 16th century. [[Johannes Brahms]] and his contemporaries would have understood Early music to range from the High Renaissance and Baroque, while some scholars consider that Early music should include the [[music of ancient Greece]] or [[Music of ancient Rome|Rome]] before 500 AD (a period that is generally covered by the term [[Ancient music]]).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Haskell|first1=Harry|title=The Early Music Revival: A History|date=1988|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=9780486291628|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGG22O24ObAC&q=Early%20music%20definition&pg=PA9|access-date=28 May 2018|language=en}}</ref> Music critic [[Michael Kennedy (music critic)|Michael Kennedy]] excludes Baroque, defining Early music as "musical compositions from [the] earliest times up to and including music of [the] Renaissance period".<ref name="Kennedy">{{cite book|author1=Michael Kennedy|author2=Tim Rutherford-Johnson|last3=Joyce Bourne Kennedy|author-link1=Michael Kennedy (music critic)|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Music|date=2013|location=Oxford and New York|publisher=Oxford University Press Oxford|isbn=9780199578542|page=255|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XX2sAQAAQBAJ&q=0198691629&pg=PA253|language=en|chapter=Early music}}</ref>

Musicologist [[Thomas Forrest Kelly]] considers that the essence of Early music is the revival of "forgotten" musical repertoire and that the term is intertwined with the rediscovery of old [[performance practice]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kelly|first1=Thomas Forrest|author-link=Thomas Forrest Kelly|title=Early Music: A Very Short Introduction|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199831890|pages=1–2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eAAC072TMBAC&q=what%20is%20early%20music&pg=PA1|access-date=28 May 2018|language=en|chapter=1. What does "early music" mean?}}</ref> According to the UK's [[National Centre for Early Music]], the term "early music" refers to both a repertory (European music written between 1250 and 1750 embracing Medieval, Renaissance and the Baroque) &ndash; and a historically informed approach to the performance of that music.<ref name="ncem">{{cite web | url=http://www.ncem.co.uk/?idno=1130 | title=About Us | publisher=National Centre for Early Music | access-date=14 November 2014}}</ref>

Today, the understanding of "Early music" has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises, instruments and other contemporary evidence."<ref>Harry Haskell, "Early Music", ''[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'', second edition, edited by [[Stanley Sadie]] and [[John Tyrrell (musicologist)|John Tyrrell]]. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.</ref>