Early music

Early music - music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. Article “Early music” in English Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Early music”, its content was written by 112 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 651 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1298 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4535 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1005 in November 2001
• Global: #1127 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #156126 in April 2010
• Global: #83071 in March 2009

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Alte Musik		90.2997
2	Italian (it) Musica antica		65.9137
3	Chinese (zh) 早期古典音樂		29.3236
4	Hungarian (hu) Régizene		29.3218
5	English (en) Early music		27.6946
6	Persian (fa) موسیقی اولیه		26.6296
7	Ukrainian (uk) Давня музика		23.2406
8	Spanish (es) Música antigua		22.9414
9	Arabic (ar) موسيقى مبكرة		20.3063
10	Galician (gl) Música antiga		19.827

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Early music" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Early music		670 129
2	Spanish (es) Música antigua		549 733
3	German (de) Alte Musik		285 714
4	Italian (it) Musica antica		216 666
5	Japanese (ja) 古楽		173 099
6	Portuguese (pt) Música antiga		108 149
7	French (fr) Musique ancienne		97 206
8	Polish (pl) Muzyka dawna		72 329
9	Dutch (nl) Oude Muziek		31 847
10	Hungarian (hu) Régizene		17 741

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Early music" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Early music		1 773
2	German (de) Alte Musik		532
3	Japanese (ja) 古楽		316
4	Spanish (es) Música antigua		261
5	French (fr) Musique ancienne		177
6	Italian (it) Musica antica		172
7	Chinese (zh) 早期古典音樂		96
8	Polish (pl) Muzyka dawna		82
9	Portuguese (pt) Música antiga		55
10	Russian (ru) Старинная музыка		55

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Early music" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Alte Musik		141
2	English (en) Early music		112
3	Italian (it) Musica antica		78
4	Japanese (ja) 古楽		52
5	French (fr) Musique ancienne		50
6	Spanish (es) Música antigua		31
7	Dutch (nl) Oude Muziek		31
8	Hungarian (hu) Régizene		24
9	Polish (pl) Muzyka dawna		19
10	Finnish (fi) Vanha musiikki		18

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Early music" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) موسيقى مبكرة		1
2	German (de) Alte Musik		1
3	Basque (eu) Antzinako musika		1
4	Catalan (ca) Música antiga		0
5	Czech (cs) Stará hudba		0
6	Danish (da) Tidlig musik		0
7	English (en) Early music		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Antikva muziko		0
9	Spanish (es) Música antigua		0
10	Estonian (et) Varajane muusika		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Early music" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Early music		1 298
2	German (de) Alte Musik		711
3	French (fr) Musique ancienne		476
4	Italian (it) Musica antica		276
5	Polish (pl) Muzyka dawna		274
6	Spanish (es) Música antigua		244
7	Japanese (ja) 古楽		204
8	Dutch (nl) Oude Muziek		188
9	Persian (fa) موسیقی اولیه		143
10	Catalan (ca) Música antiga		129

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic موسيقى مبكرة
ca	Catalan Música antiga
cs	Czech Stará hudba
da	Danish Tidlig musik
de	German Alte Musik
en	English Early music
eo	Esperanto Antikva muziko
es	Spanish Música antigua
et	Estonian Varajane muusika
eu	Basque Antzinako musika
fa	Persian موسیقی اولیه
fi	Finnish Vanha musiikki
fr	French Musique ancienne
gl	Galician Música antiga
hu	Hungarian Régizene
it	Italian Musica antica
ja	Japanese 古楽
ko	Korean 고음악
nl	Dutch Oude Muziek
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Tidlegmusikk
no	Norwegian Tidligmusikk
pl	Polish Muzyka dawna
pt	Portuguese Música antiga
ro	Romanian Muzică timpurie
ru	Russian Старинная музыка
sv	Swedish Tidig musik
uk	Ukrainian Давня музика
zh	Chinese 早期古典音樂

Best Rank

English: #156126 04.2010

Global: #83071 03.2009

Best Rank

English: #1005 11.2001

Global: #1127 11.2001

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