Medieval music

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Types of Medieval Stringed Instruments - To understand stringed instruments of the European Middle Ages, it helps to understand medieval music itself. #StringedInstruments #MedievalMusic #MiddleAges

Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first ...

Lute: the neck of the Renaissance lute was bent back; the strings were tuned in pairs and the fingerboard had frets. Viols: Flat back and six strings. Fretted fingerboard. Viols were held upright in front of the player rather than tucked under the chin Crumhorn: double-reed instrument Sackbut: It's an early kind of trombone. Trumpet: Without the valve system we know today (it was invented in the 19th century). The different notes were obtained by varying the lip pressure Percussion…

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Enter the world of the troubadours, whose music and poetry captivated the medieval imagination, shaping the era's cultural and social landscape.

Israel Triumphant, The Chariot of Abinadab, Old Testament Miniatures, France, Paris, 1240s, MS M.638 (fol. 39r)

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Medieval Musical Instruments | stringed instruments from different times and places;

The goal of e-codices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library. On the e-codices site, complete digital reproductions of the manuscripts are linked with corresponding scholarly descriptions.

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Many of our readers will already be familiar with our Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, a resource which enables you to search by shelfmark, keyword, or date, as well as by more advanced fields such as language and provenance. We thought it was about time to give a reminder that all...

Painting entitled 'Concert of Women' by an unknown artist (I think Dutch?). c.1530-1540.

The Ominous Latin Chanting trope as used in popular culture. For added atmosphere, play the music from this video while reading on. Somewhere over the past …

The 14th century was a time of demographic crisis caused by climate change, famine and disease, followed by social unrest throughout Europe.

As I may have mentioned before, I am very partial to Tudor and Elizabethan church music, and want to get all excited about an aspect of this...

Mark Smeaton was a musician at the court of Henry VIII who got caught up in the adultery trial of Anne Boleyn. He was the only one of Anne's accused lovers to plead guilty. Mark was born around 1512, which means he was only in his early twenties when his life was abruptly ended by the blow of an axe. There is no record he ever married or had children. Almost nothing is known of his life before he came to court. There are legends that he was the son of a carpenter, born in Flanders, and that…

Discover the enchanting sounds of the past with our guide to medieval musical instruments. Explore ancient melodies & forgotten crafts.