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It's actually genuine music from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. Those were pretty ugly times in terms of technology and creature comforts, but they atoned for it by their art, which is beautiful beyond compare. I know there's a tendency for us modern types to think of anything old as simplistic, but believe me, there's nothing simplistic about it. For a complete rundown you really need to ask someone like lostinacademe. All I can tell you is that this body of music is like nothing else you've heard before. If you're into harmonic and contrapuntal devices, strong thematic content and good taste, you'll like it. On the other hand, if your notion of music is two or three naked savages beating on a tom-tom, it's not for you!