Today, the understanding of "Early music" 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."
I dag inkluderer dette term do "alt musik, for hvilken en historisk passende stil til optrædener må rekonstrueres på grundlag af overlevende noder, afhandlinger, instrumenter og andre nutidige beviser."