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Cretan lyra. Dulcimer. Fiddle. Gittern [6] Guitarra latina. Guitarra morisca [7] Medieval harp (Medieval form of the modern harp) Hurdy-gurdy. Lute [8]
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.
Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ars nova, the Trecento music was treated by musicology as a coda to Medieval music and the new era dated from the rise of ...
Music in Medieval England. Music in Medieval England, from the end of Roman rule in the fifth century until the Reformation in the sixteenth century, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite. The sources of English secular music are much more limited than for ecclesiastical music.
Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.
Classification. Keyboard instrument. Playing range. C 2 /E 2 to C 6 (45 notes); some Italian models C 2 to F 6 (54 notes) Related instruments. harpsichord, spinet, clavicytherium. The virginals[ a ] is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
Lira da braccio. The lira da braccio (or lyra de bracio[1]) was a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance. It was used by Italian poet-musicians [2] in court in the 15th and 16th centuries to accompany their improvised recitations of lyric and narrative poetry. [3] It is most closely related to the medieval fiddle, or vielle, [4 ...
Citole. The vielle / viˈɛl / is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a figure-8 shaped body. [citation needed] Whatever external form they had, the box ...