Régi zene - új zene
Old Music - New Music

Summary/Abstract: A strong correlation exists between the notions of old and new. The novelty of music, which had previously been considered a natural condition, turned into an artistic requirement at the beginning of the 19th century, when the horizon of an historical approach to music appeared. The concept of Old Music, however, is not a chronological one: instead of indicating the endeavour to find a repertoire not yet known, in the second half of the 20th century it rather signified a re-interpretation of pieces of music already canonized. While Old Music presupposes an end of an earlier musical tradition, New Music does not imply a break with older traditions but it refers to drawing the final conclusions of the modern European musical tradition, which began in the 17th century.

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