Instruments and Their Music in the Middle Ages

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ISBN: 9780754627623 | 0754627624
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/28/2009

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This collection of twenty-eight influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory considers the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a broad and detailed picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.

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Introduction
Classifications and Lists of Instruments: Haut and bas: the grouping of musical instruments in the Middle Ages
German musicians and their instruments: a 14th century account by Konrad of Megenberg
Mains divers acors
15th century instruments in Tinctoris's De Inventionae et Usu Musicae
Some English consort-groupings of the late Middle Ages
Keyboards: On the origin of the keyboard mechanism in the late Middle Ages
Toward the identification of the chekker
The capture of the chekker
The Norrlanda organ and the Ghent altarpiece
Plucked Strings: The trecento harp
15th century tablatures for plucked instruments: a summary, a revision and a suggestion
The 15th century lute: new and neglected sources
The medieval gittern and citole: a case of mistaken identity
Bowed Strings: The trecento fiddle and its bridges
Rebes, fiddle and crowd in England
Rebec, fiddle and crowd: some further observations
Medieval fiddle construction
Vedel and geige - fiddle and viol
German string traditions in the 15th century
Winds: The Renaissance slide trumpet: fact or fiction?
Slide trumpet madness: fact or fiction?
The trombone, slide trumpet and the ensemble tradition of the early renaissance
The trompette des menestrels in the 15th-century alta capella
Misleading iconography: the case of the 'Adimari Wedding Cassone'
Backward bells and barrel bells: some notes on the early history of loud instruments
Repertory: On 'instrumental style' in early melody
Instruments and the Faenza codex
Musical instruments at the medieval banquet
Musical instruments in civic processions during the Middle Ages
Musical instruments at the court of Burgundy
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Instruments and Their Music in the Middle Ages

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