The Early Music Revival

Harvard FAS

Ancient or early, historically informed or period appropriate, revival or recovery. Whatever you call it, the impulse to reintroduce and reinterpret the sounds and styles of the musical past for the present day has a long history. This course touches on several iterations of the recurring phenomenon colloquially known as Early Music but centers on the long twentieth century’s Historically Informed Performance (HIP) movement. Since Boston plays a significant role in that story, we’ll…