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  2. Medieval music - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of European medieval musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    The instrument also made it into artwork on the Silk Road near China. 1451 A.D. Panpipes. Panflute An instrument of shepherds in the late Roman Empire, seen in 3rd century A.D. Christian art. The instrument was widespread, appearing in Chinese art from the Tang dynasty featuring men on the Silk Road. 842–850 A.D., Carolingian Empire.

  4. Music in Medieval England - Wikipedia

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    Medieval musicians had a wide variety of instruments available to them. The Anglo-Saxon scop and gleeman were replaced in the thirteenth century by the minstrel . In the early Middle Ages, ecclesiastical music was dominated by monophonic plainchant, the separate development of British Christianity until the eighth century, led to the ...

  5. Lute - Wikipedia

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    Medieval lutes were four- and five-course instruments, plucked with a quill as a plectrum. There were several sizes and, by the end of the Renaissance, seven sizes (up to the great octave bass) are documented. Song accompaniment was probably the lute's primary function in the Middle Ages, but very little music securely attributable to the lute ...

  6. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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    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. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".

  7. There’s a reason why Medieval art is particularly, well, weird. While paintings and sculptures that remain from most other periods in history were generally produced by trained artists, the ...

  8. Shawm - Wikipedia

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    The shawm (/ ʃ ɔː m /) is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissance periods, after which it was gradually eclipsed by the oboe family of descendant instruments in classical music.

  9. Musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    A musical instrument is a device created ... Early musical instruments were made ... Historians divide the development of musical instruments in medieval India ...