HB-S Instruments
Instrument families
Instr. classification
Medieval Music
Renaissance Music
100

Trombone

Aerophone

100

Trumpet

Brass


100

A type of instrument that makes sound when air is blown into it.

What is an Aerophone
100

She was a writer, composer, philosopher, medical worker, who was recognized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

Hildegard of Bingen

100

These were the years of the Renaissance.

1450-1600

200

Cymbals

Idiophone

200

Saxophone

Woodwind
200

A type of music that makes sound by plucking, hitting, or strumming its strings.

What is a chordophone

200

It is the official music of the Roman Catholic Church, that are melodies sung in Latin and without accompaniment.

Gregorian chant

200

A musical representation of specific poetic images

Word painting

300

Violin

Chordophone

300

Xylophone

Percussion

300

An instrument that makes sound by tapping or hitting a stretched membrane.

Membranophone

300

This was a common medieval dance that was typically done at parties or balls that is performed in a group where each participant has a partner.

Estampie

300

This new invention helped widen the circulation of music.

Printing.

400

Flute

Aerophone

400
Double Bass

Strings

400

An instrument that makes sound electronically.

Electrophone

400

Gregorian chant is named after him

Pope Gregory I

400

The dominant intellectual movement that shifted focus on human life and achievement.

Humanism

500

Theramin

Electrophone

500

Tubular Bells

Percussion


500

An instrument that makes sound by striking the instrument itself.

Idiophone

500

The church saw this musical evolution in the 14th Century.

New Art

500

The primary texture of the Renaissance.

Polyphonic

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