Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance / David Munrow ; foreword by André Previn.

Author/creator Munrow, David
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Oxford University Press, ©1976.
Description95 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Subjects
Musical instruments--History.
Music--500-1400. --History and criticism.

Contents Part I: The Middle Ages. The woodwind. Reed instruments (The shawm ; Reed pipes and hornpipes ; Bagpipes and bladder pipes ; The douçaine) ; The flutes (Panpipes and transverse flutes ; Six-holed pipe and double pipes ; Pipe and tabor ; The recorder ; The gemshorn) -- Keyboard. The early medieval organ ; Portative organ and positive organ ; The hurdy-gurdy ; Monochord and clavichord -- Brass. The trumpet ; Cow horn and oliphant ; The medieval cornett ; The slide trumpet -- Strings. Instruments with open strings only (The harp ; The lyre ; Psaltery and dulcimer) ; The fretted instruments (The lute ; The mandora ; The long-necked lute ; The gittern ; The citole) ; The bowed instruments (Rebec and fiddle ; The bowed lyre ; The tromba marina) -- Percussion. The drum types (Nakers and tabor ; Kettledrums and side drum ; Tambourin and tambourine ; The rommelpot) ; Melodic instruments (Chime bells ; The xylophone) ; Other types of instruments (Cymbals and triangle ; Clappers, castanets, and rattles ; The jew's harp) -- Part 2: The Renaissance. Woodwind. Reed instruments without reed-cap (The shawm ; The bassanello ; The curtal or dulcian ; The sordun and courtaut ; The rackett) ; The reed-cap instruments (The crumhorn ; The cornamuse ; The kortholt ; The doppione ; Rauschpfeife and schreierpfeife ; The bagpipe) ; The flutes (The transverse flute ; The recorder) -- Keyboard. The renaissance organ ; The regal ; The harpsichord ; The clavicytherium ; The claviorganum ; The virginals ; The spinet ; The geigenwerk -- Brass. The trumpet ; The horn ; The sackbut ; The cornett ; The serpent -- Strings. The plucked instruments (The harp ; The lute ; Theorbo and chitarrone ; Mandora, pandurina, colascione, and angélique ; The cittern ; The ceterone ; Bandora and orpharion ; Penorcon, poliphant, and stump ; Vihuela and guitar) ; The bowed instruments (The viol ; The violone ; Division viol, lyra viol, and viola bastarda ; The lirone ; Renaissance fiddle and lira da braccio ; The violin).
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