MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plucked String Instrument, Double Reed, Keyboard Instrument
10 Apr 2019
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If you were a courtier of any kind, then you should have some musical talent. And had to be able to read notation from a book. These dances were published in the thousands, but they never mention instruments. Instruments either played dance music (all instrumental music from the 12th century), in 14th century we think they sang and played instruments together: then in 1600: the theater of instruments was published, which described all instruments. Shows instruments of the time with dimensions and sometimes tuning. It even includes percussion instruments, even though we only have written music. Barbaric instruments from other countries: evidence of contact between cultures for percussion as of 1750. Some of these people came over as slaves: ex: la bourr e from terpischore. The genre of this piece is a bour e: quick, has plucked strings. Consort: mixed instruments: ex: courante from terpischore. Pay attention to the beat and then the subdivision of the beat.
