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1 Renaissance (1400–1600) Toggle Renaissance (1400–1600) subsection. 1.1 Strings. ... This article consists of a list of such instruments in the European ...
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Renaissance racketts surround the reed with an openwork cylindrical pirouette; Baroque ones are closed-in, with a bocal. [ 1 ] The baroque rackett (developed by the Nuremberg maker Johann Christoph Denner ) combined the folded bore concept with a conical (or pseudo-conical) bore profile; in essence, it is a bassoon in rackett form.
The musical instrument known as the regal or regalle (from Middle French régale [1]) is a small portable organ, furnished with beating reeds and having two bellows. [2] The instrument enjoyed its greatest popularity during the Renaissance.
Musical instruments used in early music, i.e. Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque European classical music, especially those instruments no longer widely used today. Contents Top
The scenes of the era were both divine and mundane, from Hans Memling’s luminous nativity scene, circa 1480, to Bruegel’s depiction of an angry wife hauling home her intoxicated husband, circa ...
Selection of Renaissance instruments. Many instruments originated during the Renaissance; others were variations of, or improvements upon, instruments that had existed previously. Some have survived to the present day; others have disappeared, only to be recreated in order to perform music of the period on authentic instruments.
[12] [23] The cornett was, like many Renaissance and Baroque instruments, made in a family of sizes. Four extant sizes are the soprano ( cornettino ), the treble or curved cornett, the alto, the tenor or lizard and the rare bass cornett, which was supplanted by the serpent in the 17th century.