Shawm

In “Deo gracias Anglia”, “Owr king went forth”, “Pray for us, thou Prince of Pes”, and a couple other songs, a man is singing the extremely high falsetto part, and the singer’s voice sounds very young and honestly sounds very forced, but credit is due to the performers for maintaining the historical authenticity. Most of the songs are unaccompanied, but the songs that are accompanied are done so by authentic instruments such as the harp, plectrum lute, recorder, crumhorn, rackett, and shawm. The musicians did not stay strictly authentic, however, and did use a few more modern instruments such as the guitar, viola, and hecklephone (Now Make We Myrth). The oboe is also used, but the authenticity of this is questionable as the oboe was only first being developed from the shawm in the mid-1700’s, and it was not specified on the CD whether the performer was using a modern oboe or one authentic to what would have been used in the Renaissance (Now Make We Myrth). There were also a few purely instrumental songs. Now Make We Merthe is an excellent representation of popular Renaissance music, but one could not say that it is strictly authentic, although most of the changes made did not hinder the music in any…

it is played on the lap. “When composers in the newer Classical style began to write complete harmonies in the upper instrumental parts, the viol, deprived of its last useful function, dropped out of use altogether” (Viol 1). However the violin and flute are still used very much today. In the book, Music from the Age of Shakespeare: A Cultural History, Suzanne Lord and David Brinkman state that, “The Gittern (Sometimes spelled Gittron) most closely resembles a guitar, an instrument that did not…

European culture especially a few types of art. Some of the gifts the Muslims brought were new instruments, Islamic art, and poetry. The period of contact between Islam and Europe was a vital effect of the crusades setting separate technological advances in place. Throughout Islam’s contact with Europe, the Muslims influenced the Music, Art, and Literature of Eastern Europe profoundly more than the Christians. The Muslim preface of instruments in Europe brought about the advancements of Music…

same word in unison. There is a solo verse in the middle before returning back to the opening theme. Other elements of Western music that were introduced during the Middle Ages and Renaissance were Gregorian chants, polyphony and homophony. Polyphony is when there are multiple melodies being played at the same time, while homophony has a primary melody with an underlying harmony to provide contrast. During the Renaissance period instrument were classified as soft/indoor instruments or…

The least ancient of the three is gavotte. Its first appearance was made in 1588 in the court dance called Orchésographie. Meredith describes the gavotte like this: “a relatively new form of the branle, consisting of the same sideways motion by a line or circle of dancers. Unlike the branle, in which sideways motion was achieved by the dancer’s continually bringing the feet together, the gavotte required crossing of the feet twice in each step pattern, and each step was followed by a hop.”…

The years (1450-1600) marked beginning the Renaissance. In the Renaissance, many instruments were added to the musicians toolbelt of expression; Instruments such as: the rebec, shawm, sackbut, and the cornetto. Also, Imitative Polyphony made an appearance in contrast to the middle ages’ non-imitative polyphonic music. Artists such as Susato, Palestrina, Arcadelt, Farmer, and Josquin des Prez made their debuts in the renaissance and Susato brought to the world Three Dances, a ronde that was…

wintery evening are imagined to emit the sound of the jazz music. The weaving pattern of the cross lights, further ,is envisioned as having the perception of solidity when a parallel sound of the meshwork of the “breaking mind “ is echoed off the plane of anastomosis of lights at the junction of the two roads. The red colored visual conglomerates with a sound pattern in the engrossing synasthesia in which the cross lights take on the solidity of a surface that can echo, the jazz sound. A set of…