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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 ...
1500-1700 A.D., Germany. Gemshorn with 6 finger holes. Fits description of instrument examined by Sachs, a six holed instrument with a vent in the tip, about 13 inches long. [86] Gemshorn in 1511 book, Musica Getutscht, by Sebastian Virdung. Three fingerholes with "dorsal thumbhole". [86] Modern gemshorn. Horn. Bockhorn or Bukkehorn. Blowing ...
Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero. A Stradivarius is one of the string instruments, such as violins, violas, cellos, and guitars, crafted by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), in Cremona, Italy, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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 ...
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).
The instrument tapers in thickness, until at the top it is about 1.3 centimetres (0.51 in) wide. [13] The instruments were mainly treble cornetts, [26] tuned to the same range as the curved treble cornett, G 3 to A 5. [27] The others found in museums are soprano cornetts, also tuned like curved instruments to E 4 to E 6. [27] [26]
An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)