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====The Development of Modern Music Festivals====
[[File:600px-Bayreuthfest.jpg|thumb|left|Figure 2. The Bayreuth Festival, first held in 1876, took place in Bavaria and helped to show that festivals could make artists better known through promoting their music. ]]
In the Medieval era, most of the music that took place we would perhaps today classify as folk music or local music from regions that would involve common instruments rather than regal or more formal instruments that would have developed and became popularized in the early Modern Era after the 16th century. These would have taken place at local festivals, but it is impossible to determine if the music played at the festival was just part of the experience or the entire focus of the festival.
