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The Early Music Shop is an early music store specialising in the sale and distribution of reproduction Renaissance and medieval musical instruments, with two showrooms situated in Saltaire and Snape Maltings, United Kingdom. It was founded by Richard Wood in 1968 [1] and has become the largest supplier of early musical instruments worldwide. [2]
Musical instruments used in early music, i.e. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque European classical music, especially those instruments no longer widely used today.
The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family. Visually, the musette is characterised by the short, cylindrical shuttle-drone and the two chalumeaux . Both the chanters and the drones have a cylindrical bore and use a double reed , giving a quiet tone similar to the oboe .
Musical instruments used in Baroque music were partly used already before, partly are still in use today, but with no technology. [1] The movement to perform music in a historically informed way, trying to recreate the sound of the period, led to the use of historic instruments of the period and to the reconstruction of instruments.
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.
Many instruments evolved or were invented during the Baroque period of European classical music (ca. 1600-1750), which fell out of popular use after this period. Most commonly, as the Baroque focus on quiet chamber music faded, and larger, louder orchestral works were composed, quieter instruments were abandoned in favor of louder counterparts.
The Yale Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, a division of the Yale School of Music, is a museum in New Haven, Connecticut.It was established in 1900 by a gift of historic keyboard instruments from Morris Steinert, and later enriched in 1960 and 1962 by the acquisition of the Belle Skinner and Emil Herrmann collections.
Page by the Ensemble Gabriele Leone compares "French Baroque" mandore with other baroque instruments; Many pictures of vintage mandolins and pre-mandolins laid out side by side; Meteora, Barlaam Monastery, King David's XVI-cent. fresco with mandore. Medici's court, musician with mandore.