Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages (Music in Medieval Europe)

This is a collection of twenty-nine of the most influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory. The authors discuss the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a very broad, as well as detailed, picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period. Classifications and Lists of Instruments : Haut and bas : the grouping of musical instruments in the Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles German musicians and their instruments : a 14th century account by Konrad of Megenberg / Christopher Page Mains divers acors / Joscelyn Godwin Fifteenth-century instruments in Tinctoris''s De Inventionae et Usu Musicae / Anthony Baines Some English consort groupings of the late Middle Ages / Richard Rastall On the origin of the keyboard mechanism in the late Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles Towards an identification of the chekker / Edwin M. Ripin The capture of the chekker / David Kinsela The Norrlanda organ and the Ghent altarpiece, Edwin M. Ripin The trecento harp / Howard Mayer Brown 15th century tablatures for plucked instruments : a summary, a revision and a suggestion / David Fallows The 15th century lute : new and neglected sources, / Christopher Page The medieval gittern and citole : a case of mistaken identity / Laurence Wright The trecento fiddle and its bridges, / Howard Mayer Brown Rebec, fiddle and crowd in England / Mary Remnant Rebec, fiddle and crowd in England : some further observations / Mary Remnant An aspect of medieval fiddle construction / Christopher Page Vedel and geige, fiddle and viol : German string traditions in the 15th century / Keith Polk The Renaissance slide trumpet : fact or fiction? / Peter Downey Slide trumpet madness : fact or fiction? / Herbert W. Myers The trombone, the slide trumpet and the ensemble tradition of the early Renaissance / Keith Polk The trompette des menestrels in the 15th-century alta capella / Ross W. Duffin Misleading iconography: the case of the ''Adimari Wedding Cassone'' / Timothy J. McGee Backward bells and barrel bells : some notes on the early history of loud instruments / Ross W. Duffin On ''instrumental style'' in early melody / Lloyd Hibberd Instruments and the Faenza codex / Timothy J. McGee Musical instruments at the medieval banquet / Edmund A. Bowles Musical instruments in civic processions during the Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles. A collection of twenty-nine of the most influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory. It discusses the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed, and their repertory. It paints a broad picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period