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TOTNES EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY

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Welcome to the Totnes Early Music Society website

TEMS has been running modestly but successfully for nearly ten years. Our performers are largely drawn from the NEMA Early Music Yearbook and Performers Directory of top soloists and ensembles, and our concerts achieve national listings, with people attending from as far away as Bristol and Penzance.

Our tenth season of six concerts begins in September 2009, and will range from Renaissance lute music, through lively popular music from the English Civil War period, through to uplifting Baroque music for Holy Week.

We continue our welcome collaboration with The Arts at Dartington with which we will be scheduling two concerts in the coming season.

All our concerts are open to non members. Tickets are normally £10, with students and juniors £5.00.

Great discounts for Members:

By joining TEMS, you can attend all six concerts for the price of four. See the Membership page for details.

 

and what is Early Music?

One definition is: music earlier than the contemporary music being played when performers decided to perform early music…..
but we prefer to say simply, music from mediaeval times up to late baroque (about 1750) - encompassing popular or courtly, intimate ballad or rousing dance music, sacred or secular, instrumental or sung, and usually for small ensembles.

Do join us!

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