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Early Music was founded in 1973 by John Mansfield Thomson, a New Zealand musicologist who worked in London. Thomson was a leading figure in the early music revival and aimed to unite scholarship with mainstream musical performance.
Early Music is published quarterly by Oxford University Press. Thomson worked alongside OUP's Alan Franks in the journal's early years, though he described his relationship with the press as uneasy.
Early Music covers the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, with occasional coverage of the Classical and Romantic eras. Each issue typically features five to ten articles alongside reviews of books, music, and recordings.
The current co-editors are Alan Howard, Elizabeth Eva Leach, and Stephen Rose. Previous editors include Nicholas Kenyon and Tess Knighton, who served after founder John Mansfield Thomson.
Librarian Alan Karass described the journal's "extraordinary visual beauty" as a distinguishing feature, noting it frequently includes visual art alongside scholarly topics. He also noted the articles are "scholarly but not academic in nature," making the journal accessible to performers and informed amateurs, not just researchers.
Guillaume de Machaut was the subject of issue 5.4 and Johann Sebastian Bach was covered in issue 13.2. Baroque theatre received two consecutive dedicated issues, 17.4 and 18.1, and Baroque dance was explored in issue 26.2.