| The Renaissance is an important time period of | | | | popular musical instruments, such as flute, oboe, |
| history; the word means in French "rebirth" and is | | | | trumpet, trombone and guitar can be traced back |
| very appropriate to define the most spectacular | | | | in the Renaissance. Wind instruments are really |
| historical age in Italy. Western Europe was also | | | | related to this period. Many musical instruments of |
| influenced by its main features, the revival of | | | | the Renaissance were made out of wood, such |
| learning based on classical sources (Greek and | | | | as shawm, flute, recorder or sackbut. The shawm |
| Latin), and the raise of papal patronage, the | | | | is the first oboe; it is also the ancestor of English |
| development of perspective and great | | | | horn and bassoon. All these musical instruments of |
| advancements of science. Albrecht Durer was the | | | | the Renaissance were played with a double reed. |
| first to describe Italian art as "renaissance". Giorgio | | | | The shawm produces really loud sounds, the |
| Vasari, Giotto, Masaccio, Bruneleschi and Donatello | | | | kortholt and the dulcian too. All those musical |
| are developing the painting art to the perfection. | | | | instruments of the Renaissance are using a |
| Leonardo da Vinci, great scientist, painter and | | | | reed-cap and have a two and one half octave |
| sculptor, Michelangelo developed their awesome | | | | range. |
| art on the desire to study the nature. | | | | The cornetts were also very popular during the |
| The Renaissance was a great period for music | | | | Renaissance; all of them wee made out of wood. |
| instruments. Renaissance music is represented by | | | | Today the trumpets are made out of brass. |
| liturgical forms. Composers of sacred music began | | | | Musical instruments of the Renaissance such as |
| to adopt new forms, such as "madrigal" and use | | | | cornetts coma in three types: the curved cornett, |
| improved musical instruments of the Renaissance. | | | | the mute cornett and the straight cornett. The |
| Sacred new genres appeared; the madrigale | | | | recorder, the flute and the transverse wee also |
| spirituale, the laude, the mass and the motet. | | | | very popular during the Renaissance, because |
| Instrumental music was composed for viol or | | | | they were easy to play. |
| recorder. Most popular genres were the toccata, | | | | The transverse flute was the first musical |
| the ricercar, the prelude, and the canzona. The | | | | instrument of the Renaissance where the vibrato |
| great idea of polyphonies, the basic of today's | | | | can be used. Today vibrato is used on a large |
| music, is coming from those great times. | | | | scale of musical instruments. |
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| musical instruments of the Renaissance. Many | | | | |