Forgotten Art
What we call classical music has a much stronger claim to the title of modern music than what typically goes by that moniker. If we mark its beginning at around the time of Bach, then I must note that he was born after the deaths of René Descartes and Francis Bacon, philosophers one and two used to mark the beginning of “early modernity” in the history …
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