The New Music and the Old: the Early Seventeenth Century

Folger Consort performed The New Music and the Old: the Early Seventeenth Century in the Gallery and the Elizabethan Theatre on March 4 and March 5, 1979. The early seventeenth century was a transitional time for European music, in some ways a revolutionary time. This program presented music from opposite poles of the seventeenth-century musical culture: the somewhat insular and more conservative English styles and the deliberately new Italian experiments that eventually led to the establishment of what is known by most people today as Baroque style.