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Summary

Students and fans of early European classical music gather in rec.music.early to share their thoughts on the Early Music genre. The newsgroup is the online hub for the discussion of medieval, renaissance, and sacred and secular Baroque music, the culture associated with the music, its academic study, performance, fans, groups dedicated to the musical era, events related to the music, instruments and instrument makers, performers, theory and method. Members solicit and advertise recordings of early music and copies of the sheet music for musical pieces, talk about the instruments used and made during the period and exchange resources for obtaining them, discuss the history behind the music and the history of the period, composers and their influence on later musical eras, share notes on performances and recordings and their value, debate hot topics in the early music world, and converse about methods used by period composers and the theory behind them. FAQ available at http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/pointer.html.