Answer by ggcg for How do we know what classical (older) music actually...
I cannot provide a complete answer. In fact, the answer might be that we cannot know what an ancient composer intended their music to sound like. As an example I'd cite some fairly common renaissance...
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We can make an educated guess from our knowledge of the instruments, contemporary reports etc. But styles of performance have changed even within the era of high quality recorded music. Listen to...
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This is some kind of a complementary question to Are there any composer instructions on how to play a melody? How can we (in modern times) know how a piece of classical music was actually intended to...
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