Is there no 'light' Early Music?

[StephenO]

Light early music? Nope, afraid not. Haydn and Mozart invented it.

[Roehre]

Light early music? Nope, afraid not. Haydn and Mozart invented it.

the latter's Canons KV231 and 233 you mean ?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Is the Beggars' Opera a sort of early G&s or is it too late for your definition of 'early'?

Well the story's hardly "light".

[Chris Newman]

Alpy, I would have thought the Beggar's Opera was quite late light music. Not many people in G & S get threatened with execution: OK, Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko but like Macheath they get let off.

Crikey! On the other hand. Come to think of it. I have sung some Purcell and some rugby songs which are similarly light (or filthy). Bits of Monteverdi and Cavalli etc. are hardly heavy.

[salymap]

[QUOTE=Eine Alpensinfonie;64363]Well the story's hardly "light". [/QUOTE

Neither is'The Yeomen of the Guard'

[Chris Newman]

The Spaniards and Mexicans of the mid Seventeeth Century could certainly let their hair down in church:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aii-bwMVRKo

Far more catchy than the modern "Happy Clappy" bilge.