Instruments Early Music E Styles
Instruments Early Music E Styles
Musical instruments from the western world of the Baroque, Renaissance, Medieval and earlier periods.
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Rebec Page - Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
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A Loud, Low Cost Cornemuse You Can Build from CPVC - Build a cornemuse in 1.5 hours, from an archived discussion from the Musical Instrument Makers Forum.
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John's Music Things - Description of medieval singing techniques and the musical instruments he plays.
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Renaissance Cittern Page - Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
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Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
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Neanderthal Flute - Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music.
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Kenneth Sparr - Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards.
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Lars' Baroque Flute Corner - Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
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Contrabass Compendium - A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
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Joëlle Morton's Historical Bass - The history of bass string instruments such as the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, along with their performance practices and iconography.
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Links to History of Musical Instruments - Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
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The Saxon Lyre - History, construction, and playing techniques.
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Instruments to Play Medieval Music - Pictures of medieval instruments with illustrations from medieval art. Includes audio clips, bibliography and discography in French.
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Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments - Information on as many early instruments as possible.
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Early Music Vincent Ho - Early music and instruments, sound files of harpsichords and clavichords, and a table with pictures of the author's early music instruments collection, from medieval psalteries to Renaissance recorders.
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Edinburgh University Collection of Historic Musical Instruments - A museum in Scotland open to the public contains 1000 items including stringed, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments from Britain, Europe, and distant lands.
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Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance - Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the Renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.
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Bate Collection of Musical Instruments - An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.
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Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony - Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.
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Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography - Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.
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Historic Double Reed Instruments - Describes shawms, curtals, oboes, and bassoons made by Robert H. Cronin.
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Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments - A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.
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Windcaps - Early music in various manifestations by Mark W Venn, including handmade Renaissance woodwind instruments, Cotswold Early Music Festival (formerly the Cirencester Early Music Festival), and the "Mozart" music software.
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National Music Museum - Founded as an academic support unit of The University of South Dakota, this collection includes more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods.
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Pifarri Page - Wind instrument ensembles in Italy from 1450 to 1620 by Brenda Flynn.
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Kim Christensen's Music Museum - Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description.
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Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon - A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world.
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Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument - Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
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Dulcians - A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
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