Generalmente se designa como música antigua a la música clásica europea compuesta antes de 1750, aproximadamente. No debe confundirse con la música en la Antigüedad (o sea, en las distintas civilizaciones de la Edad Antigua). La música antigua, entendida de esa manera, comprende, por tanto, los siguientes periodos de la historia de la música: \n* Música de la Edad Media (aproximadamente: 1000 - 1450) \n* Música del Renacimiento (aproximadamente: 1450 - 1600) \n* Música del Barroco (aproximadamente: 1600 - 1750)

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Early music is music, especially Western art music, composed prior to the Classical era. The term generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760), and, according to some authorities such as Kennedy (who excludes Baroque), Ancient music (before 500 AD). According to the UK's National Centre for Early Music, the term "early music" refers to both a repertory (European music written between 1250 and 1750 embracing Medieval, Renaissance and the Baroque) – and a historically informed approach to the performance of that music. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises, instruments and other contemporary evidence."

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