Why should you be interested?
You might be interested for all sorts of reasons. It's like food preferences. Some people eat carrots because they like them. Some people eat them because they're good for you. Some people don't eat them.
Music's like that but more so. People like music for all sorts of different reasons, and they like different music at different times and for different purposes.
We (the website authors) like early music because:
Music's like that but more so. People like music for all sorts of different reasons, and they like different music at different times and for different purposes.
We (the website authors) like early music because:
- it's a different world waiting to be explored, in fact it's several different worlds
- it's intimate and un-pompous
- it's an excellent opportunity for enthusiastic amateurs to make real music that's fun to play, worth performing to listeners, and within their technical prowess
- for some of us, it's an opportunity to dress up and enjoy re-enactment fun
- and some of it is breathtakingly beautiful.