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One of the most pronounced features of early Renaissance European art music was the increasing reliance on the interval of the third and its inversion, the sixth (in the Middle Ages, thirds and sixths had been considered dissonances, and only perfect intervals were treated as consonances: the perfect fourth the perfect fifth, the octave, and the unison).
The recorder family, one of the many consorts of instruments available to Renaissance composers. One key distinction between Renaissance and Baroque instrumental music is in instrumentation; that is, the ways in which instruments are used or not used in a particular work. Closely tied to this concept is the idea of idiomatic writing, for if ...
Musical instruments used in early music, i.e. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque European classical music, especially those instruments no longer widely used today.
Pages in category "Renaissance instruments" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Colascione;
The recorder was widely used in the sixteenth century, and was one of the most common instruments of the Renaissance. From the fifteenth century onwards, paintings show upper-class men and women playing recorder, and Virdung's didactic treatise Musica getutscht (1511), the first of its kind, was aimed at the amateur (see also Documentary evidence).
[12] [23] The cornett was, like many Renaissance and Baroque instruments, made in a family of sizes. Four extant sizes are the soprano ( cornettino ), the treble or curved cornett, the alto, the tenor or lizard and the rare bass cornett, which was supplanted by the serpent in the 17th century.
The musical instrument known as the regal or regalle (from Middle French régale [1]) is a small portable organ, furnished with beating reeds and having two bellows. [2] The instrument enjoyed its greatest popularity during the Renaissance.