Dallas Bach Society

The term Early Music is often used to indicate music from before 1800, and usually also implies performance on older instruments. To be sure, modern symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles perform Bach and Mozart, but a performance of a Bach Passion, for instance, with and orchestra of 40-60 and a chorus to match, is a far different artistic experience that one with an orchestra of 10-20 with a chorus to match, particularly given that the instruments of the time were in general softer, and the singing much less forceful concert halls with 2,000 seats were a development of a much later time.