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During the 15th century, the sound of full triads became common, and towards the end of the 16th century the system of church modes began to break down entirely, giving way to functional tonality (the system in which songs and pieces are based on musical "keys"), which would dominate Western art music for the next three centuries.
17th-century arquebus at the Château de Foix museum, France. An arquebus (/ ˈ ɑːr k (w) ə b ə s / AR-k(w)ə-bəs) is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century. An infantryman armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier.
Burgundian motets tended to be in Latin, written for three voices with the top voice being the most important. An example of a Burgundian motet is Quam pulchra es, written by Dunstaple in the early 15th century. Instrumental music was also cultivated at the Burgundian courts, often for dancing.
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.
The Chinese obtained the matchlock arquebus technology from the Portuguese in the 16th century and matchlock firearms were used by the Chinese into the 19th century. [15] The Chinese used the term "bird-gun" to refer to muskets and Turkish muskets may have reached China before Portuguese ones. [16] A Japanese Arquebus with a rain cover, c. 1598
Antoine Busnois (also Busnoys; c. 1430 – before 6 November 1492) was a French composer, singer and poet of early Renaissance music.Busnois and colleague Johannes Ockeghem were the leading European composers of the second half the 15th century, and central figures of the early Franco-Flemish School.
15th century culveriners. A culverin was initially an ancestor of the hand-held arquebus, but the term was later used to describe a type of medieval and Renaissance cannon. The word is derived from the antiquated "culuering" and the French couleuvrine (from couleuvre "grass snake", following Latin: colubrinus, lit. 'of the nature of a snake'). [1]
It was originally made from chamois horn, but in later music, the an ox-horn version filled the gap between the flageolet and the recorder. [87] It became common to use ox horn after 1375 A.D. [87] The instrument's popularity in the 15th century led to an organ stop being created by 1511 with the name gemshorn or cor de chamois. [88]