Early Music America
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Early Music America has enriched the field of early music in North America since 1985, by developing, supporting and strengthening interest in music created before the 20th century. EMA’s members receive a wide array of benefits, and its broad membership – including professional performers, educators, ensembles, presenters, instrument makers, enthusiasts, philanthropists, and many more – makes EMA an important advocate for early music throughout North America.
As Grove Music Online describes it, early music is “a term once applied to music of the Baroque and earlier periods, but now commonly used to denote 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.”Through its membership publications and activities, EMA supports the performance and study of early music and promotes public understanding of its potential impact on people and communities coast-to-coast.
