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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".
The year 1700 in music involved some significant events. ... An inventory of musical instruments kept by Prince Ferdinando de Medici provides the first evidence for ...
This is a list of medieval musical instruments used in European music during the Medieval period. It covers the period from before 1150 to 1400 A.D. ... 1500-1700 A.D ...
Baroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style).
Rotta from a 1700 B.C. fresco. [6] Strings have been narrowed, and adding fingerboard would create the crwth and plucked guitar fiddles. A crwth in the Horniman Museum, London, England. The crwth is quite a peculiar, very old instrument, which Aenantius Fortunatus, as early as about 609 A.D, specifies as British (chrotta Britanna canit).
Two other Stradivari guitars are in museums. An instrument of 1688 [16] is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, and an instrument of 1700 [17] is in the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota. Nicholas Alexandre Voboam II (c. 1634 /46–1692/1704).
By 1700, the chalumeau was an established instrument on the European musical scene. [3] Around this time, well-known Nuremberg instrument maker Johann Christoph (J.C.) Denner made improvements to the chalumeau, eventually developing it into the Baroque clarinet. The chalumeau is distinguished by two keys (thought to be added by Denner), which ...
The shawm was reserved almost exclusively for outdoor performance—for softer, indoor music, other instruments such as the crumhorn and cornamuse were preferred. These were double reed instruments fitted with a capsule that completely enclosed the reed, which softened the sound but still did not allow for any variation in dynamics.