Ad
related to: medieval instruments in portugal
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. There may be some overlap with Renaissance musical instruments; Renaissance music begins in the 15th century. The list mainly covers Western Europe.
King Dinis I of Portugal, from the Semblanzas de reyes.. In Portugal, an aristocratic poetical-musical genre was cultivated, at least since the independence (1139), whose texts are kept in three main collections (Cancioneiros): Cancioneiro da Ajuda (13th century), Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional (16th, on originals from the 14th), Cancioneiro da Vaticana (16th, on originals from the 14th).
It is a local adaptation of the English guitar, introduced to Portugal in the second half of the 1700s through the British trading post in Oporto. [3]: 583 Machete de braga: the machete de braga is a small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, with four metal strings.
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 Portuguese Guitar is a descendant of the Medieval citole, based on evidence of its use in Portugal since the thirteenth century (then known as 'cítole' in Portuguese) amongst troubadour and minstrel circles and in the Renaissance period, although initially it was restricted to noblemen in court circles.
In Portugal there is an instrument called charamela; and the name of the Italian shawm is ciaramella (or: cialamello, cennamella). [ 8 ] However, it is also possible that the name comes from the Arabic salamiya ( سلامية ), a traditional oboe from Egypt , as the European shawm seems to have been developed from similar instruments ...
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".
Portuguese guitar, a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings; Rabeca chuleira, a three-string fiddle; Cavaquinho, a small string instrument that originated the Ukulele; Machete, a small string instrument from Madeira; Viola braguesa, a ten-string instrument; Viola campaniça, a ten steel string guitar
Ad
related to: medieval instruments in portugal