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| Oldest Instruments were wind instruments
List three flutes |
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Fipple flute- like recorder
pan flute-pipes
transverse flute-most common |
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– Earliest Olympics had trumpets
– Used drums in battle: used to distract
i. Shaum – double reed instrument, like blade of grass, obo-like,
LOUD, irritating
– trumpets signified next battle moves |
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ars antiqua “antique art”
– Music: chanting “singing” one line |
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ars nova “new art”
– hormonies began – more complex chant |
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Wind bands rules Renaissance
– lots of art and music; social, liberation
– band “group of musicians” in public
i. no steady income
ii. no regular place to live
iii. BUMS
– did not like these people (looked down upon)
i. better to be criminal or prostitute
– 2 things for musicians:
1. unions (didn’t want people to steal gigs)
2. apprenticeships (7 year evaluation)
– played outside for commoners |
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Baroque – Bach – “indoor” “church” music
– not bands – played in rich people homes (string)
– Council of Trent: determined music “ok” for church
i. choral music
ii. string and key music |
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