I've become very partial to what's known as "Early Music", which means stuff written up to around 1760 - Bach and before. I guess it helps that my piano teacher Sophie Yates is a specialist in that era and her husband - a former rock musician - is a lute player.
Some of that early music sounds strangely modern - not in an MTV, Indie way - and some of it evokes Elizabethan drama, Spanish grandees and the like.
Anyway, at last Friday's piano lesson I was just relishing getting my ten thumbs round a particularly pleasing couple of bars and I wondered out loud what it was about music from 350 years ago that was getting to me. And Sophie said it's just music from another place, except that it's also from another place in time. Which seemed to hit the nail on the head for me.
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