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Background. Genres. Theory and notation. Composers – timeline. Early period (1400–1470) Middle period (1470–1530) Late period (1530–1600) Toggle Late period (1530–1600) subsection. Mannerism. Transition to the Baroque. Instruments. Toggle Instruments subsection. Organs. Brass. Strings. Percussion. Woodwinds (aerophones) See also. References.
1400 – 1600 Renaissance Period. 1600 – 1760 Baroque Period. 1730 – 1820 Classical Period. 1815 – 1910 Romantic Period. 1911 – present. The use of specific musical instruments follows public tastes in musical styles.
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Dec 21, 2023 · During the Renaissance, a period of cultural and artistic revival that spanned from the 14th to the 17th century, there was a renewed interest in the music and instruments of ancient civilizations. This led to the re-emergence of several ancient instruments, many of which had not been seen or heard for centuries.
May 30, 2016 · When Machaut wrote that there is no instrument—whether woodwind, keyed or stringed—whose existence does not depend on Music, he was surely referencing musical sounds with which he was intimately familiar. It is easy to associate medieval music with only two contrasting sound worlds: the unaccompanied liturgical song of churches and ...
- Lisa Colton
- 2016
From 1400 to the 1540s, most notated music in circulation in Italy was written by Franco-Flemish composers. The earliest madrigals, a new 'serious' form of vocal music, were written by northern Europeans such as Philippe Verdelot and Jacques Arcadelt in the 1520s and 1530s.
The two earliest extant recorders, both small, plain wooden instruments, date from the fourteenth century, and archival and pictorial evidence survives from the same period. A member of the flute family, the recorder was used for art music in western Europe throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
After the “classical” period around the turn of the 13th century and a midcentury resurgence, the art of the troubadours declined in the 14th century and eventually died out around the time of the Black Death (1348). The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry and courtly love.
