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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. It covers the period from before 1150 to 1400 A.D. There may be some overlap with Renaissance musical instruments; Renaissance music begins in the 15th century.
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]
Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments". This article consists of a list of such instruments in the European tradition, including both instruments that are now obsolete and early versions of instruments that continued to be used in later classical music.
Musical instruments used in early music, i.e. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque European classical music, ...
The fife was a standard instrument in European infantries by the 16th century. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the protocols of the fifes and drums became intricately associated with infantry regiments only. [5] They were not used as signaling instruments by the cavalry or artillery, which used trumpets, kettle drums or both.
For much of early medieval times, hearpe, rotte and cithara described plucked string instruments. grouped because of the way they were played. [ 4 ] Across Europe, Celtic and Germanic tribes played a form of lyre whose names were linguistically related: the Celts called theirs crwth or cruit ; to the English the instruments were rote or crowd ...
Pages in category "European musical instruments" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The buisine and the añafil were variations of a type of straight medieval trumpet usually made of metal, also called a herald's trumpet. While arguably the same instrument, the two names represent two separate traditions, in which a Persian-Arabic-Turkic instrument called the Nafir entered European culture in different places and times.