Early Music
Ancient civilization that believed music had magical properties and told the story of Orpheus taming the beasts with his lyre.
What is the Ancient Greeks?
A string instrument that required the performer to turn a crank while playing it.
What is the Hurdy-gurdy.
Where in Europe, did the Renaissance begin.
What is Florence OR Italy?
What is a Harpsichord?
This keyboard instrument uses pipes and originally required 3 people to play it.
What is the Organ?
What is Aulos?
Name any Medieval String instrument that is played with a bow.
What is Crwth, Fiddle, or Vielle?
An early keyboard instrument that is played by tangents striking the strings when the keys are played. (Not very loud)
What is a Clavichord?
This very famous Baroque composer was a church organist in Germany.
Who is J.S. Bach.
To play this wind instrument you must first fill up the bag attached to it with air.
What are the Bagpipes?
An ancient string instrument that was heavily ornamented and had more strings than the Lyra.
What is a Kithara?
An early horn that was heavily decorated and made of ivory.
What is an Oliphant?
A six stringed instrument with a hollow body that was popular in Spain during and after the Renaissance.
What is a Guitar?
This type of performance where music is sung and a story is acted out on stage became very popular during the Baroque era.
This keyboard instrument was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Italy in 1700
What is the Piano.
Ancient Greek god of healing, medicine, music, and poetry.
Who is Apollo?
An early instrument that was a portable version of the Organ.
What is Portative?
A Renaissance string instrument that is played by striking the strings with padded or curved sticks.
What is a Dulcimer?
This brass instrument started to be built with holes in the tubing so that is could play in different keys.
What is trumpet (or Buisine)?
This invention allowed music to be copied easier and more available to everyday people.
What is the Printing Press?
The number of strings a on a Lyra.
What is anywhere from 3 to 7 strings?
An early reed instrument with a conically bored tube and a flared bell.
What is a Shawm?
The wealthy family from Florence, Italy that funded a lot of new art and music at the beginning of the Renaissance.
Who are the Medici family.
This small woodwind instrument developed from the Medieval Shawm.
This was a group of intellectuals, artists, musicians, and poets who helped advance music from the Renaissance Era into the Baroque Era.
Who are the Florentine Camerata.