List of medieval musical instruments

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David playing the harp, accompanied by clappers/cymbals on stick, plucked-fiddle. c. 795, Germany/France.

This is a list of medieval musical instruments used in European music during the Medieval period.

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Medieval music
Overview

* Composers / Instruments / Theory (Theorists)

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Movements and schools

* Saint Gall
* Saint Martial
* Goliard
* Ars antiqua
* Notre-Dame school
* Troubadour
* Trouvère
* Minnesang
* Ars nova
* Trecento
* Ars subtilior

Major figures

* Notker
* Guido
* Hildegard
* Bernart
* Walther
* Pérotin
* Adam de la Halle
* Franco
* Vitry
* Machaut
* Landini
* Ciconia
* Dunstaple

Major forms

* Canso
* Conductus
* Formes fixes
* Ballade
* Rondeau
* Virelai
* Geisslerlied
* Gregorian chant
* Lai
* Lauda
* Liturgical drama
* Madrigal
* Motet
* Organum
* Planctus

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## Percussion

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* Adufe[1]
* Bumbulum (legendary)
* Cymbals
* Frame drum
* Jew's harp[2]
* Nakers
* Pandeiro[3]
* Tabor
* Tambourine
* Timbrel[4]

## String instruments

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* Citole[5][6]
* Cretan lyra
* Dulcimer
* Fiddle
* Gittern[6]
* Guitarra latina
* Guitarra morisca[7]
* Medieval harp (Medieval form of the modern harp)
* Hurdy-gurdy
* Lute[8]
* Lyre
* Organistrum (large form of medieval hurdy-gurdy)
* Psaltery
* Rebab
* Rebec[9]
* Tromba marina
* Vielle
* Viol[10]
* Zither

Artist's rendering of a medieval harp

## Wind instruments

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* Bagpipes[11]
* Bellows pipe
* Bladder pipe
* Bombard
* Buisine
* Crumhorn
* Flageolet
* Flute
* Gemshorn
* Organ
* Portative Organ
* Recorder
* Sackbut[12]
* Shawm[13]
* Tabor Pipe
* Zampogna

## References

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1. ^ Gutwirth, Eleazar (1998). "Music, Identity and the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain". Early Music History. 17: 161–181. ISSN 0261-1279.
2. ^ The Jew's harp : a comprehensive anthology. Leonard Fox. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 1988. ISBN 0-8387-5116-4. OCLC 16356799.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: others (link)
3. ^ Mauricio Molina (2006). Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-0-542-85095-0. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
4. ^ "TIMBREL - JewishEncyclopedia.com". Jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
5. ^ [1] [dead link]
6. ^ a b Baker, Paul. "The Gittern and Citole". Retrieved 4 December 2016.
7. ^ Galpin, Francis William (1911). Old English Instruments of Music. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company. pp. 21–22.
8. ^ "A Panoply of Instruments for Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music". Music Educators Journal. 65 (9): 38–69. 1979. doi:10.2307/3395616. ISSN 0027-4321.
9. ^ Spohnheimer. "The Rebec". Music.iastate.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
10. ^ "About the Viol". Archived from the original on 2015-02-03. Retrieved 2014-12-08.
11. ^ Jones, G. Fenwick (1949). "Wittenwiler's "Becki" and the Medieval Bagpipe". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 48 (2): 209–228. ISSN 0363-6941.
12. ^ Spohnheimer. "The Sacbut". Music.iastate.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
13. ^ Spohnheimer. "The Renaissance Shawm". Music.iastate.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2016-05-13.

## External links

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Medieval music

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* List of music theorists
* List of musical instruments

Early (before 1150)|

* Abbey of Saint Gall
* Notker the Stammerer
* Tuotilo
* Stephen of Liège
* Hucbald*
* Odo of Cluny*
* Fulbert of Chartres
* Heriger of Lobbes
* Saint Martial school
* Adémar de Chabannes
* Odo of Arezzo*
* Notker Physicus
* St. Godric
* Peter Abelard
* Hildegard of Bingen
* Adam of Saint Victor
* Wulfstan the Cantor?
* Wipo of Burgundy?

High (1150–1300)|

| Ars antiqua|

* Notre-Dame school
* Albertus Parisiensis
* Léonin
* Pérotin
* Philippe le Chancelier
* Petrus de Cruce*

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Troubadour
& Trobairitz*|

* Aimeric de Peguilhan
* Arnaut Daniel
* Arnaut de Mareuil
* Bernart de Ventadorn
* Bertran de Born
* Castelloza
* Cerverí de Girona
* Comtessa de Dia*
* Folquet de Marselha
* Gaucelm Faidit
* Giraut de Bornelh
* Guiraut Riquier
* Jaufre Rudel
* Marcabru
* Peire d'Alvernha
* Peire Cardenal
* Peire Vidal
* Peirol
* Perdigon
* Raimbaut d'Aurenga
* Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
* Raimon de Miravalh
* Sordello
* William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
* Other troubadours and trobairitz...

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Trouvère|

* Adam de la Halle
* Andrieu Contredit d'Arras
* Audefroi le Bastart
* Blondel de Nesle
* Le Chastelain de Couci
* Chrétien de Troyes
* Colin Muset
* Conon de Béthune
* Gace Brulé
* Gautier de Coincy
* Gautier de Dargies
* Gautier d'Espinal
* Gillebert de Berneville
* Gontier de Soignies
* Guillaume le Vinier
* Guiot de Dijon
* Jehan Bretel
* Jehan Erart
* Jehan le Cuvelier d'Arras
* Moniot d'Arras
* Perrin d'Angicourt
* Philippe de Rémi
* Raoul de Soissons
* Other trouvères...

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* Casella
* Goliards
* Minnesang
* Galician-Portuguese lyric
* List of Galician-Portuguese troubadours

Late (1300–1400)|

| Ars nova|

* F. Andrieu
* Denis Le Grant
* Magister Franciscus
* Grimace
* Jehan de Lescurel
* Guillaume de Machaut
* P. des Molins
* Jehan Vaillant
* Philippe de Vitry*

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| Trecento|

| Predecessors|

* Marchetto da Padova

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1st generation|

* Giovanni da Cascia
* Jacopo da Bologna
* Maestro Piero
* Vincenzo da Rimini

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2nd generation|

* Andreas de Florentia
* Donato da Cascia
* Francesco Landini
* Gherardello da Firenze
* Lorenzo da Firenze*
* Paolo da Firenze

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3rd generation|

* Bartolino da Padova
* Antonello da Caserta
* Johannes Ciconia*
* Matteo da Perugia
* Giovanni Mazzuoli
* Grazioso da Padova
* Niccolò da Perugia
* Philippus de Caserta
* Sant Omer
* Zacara da Teramo

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| Ars subtilior|

* Borlet
* Philippus de Caserta
* Johannes Ciconia*
* Conradus de Pistoria
* Baude Cordier
* Johannes Cuvelier
* Egardus
* Egidius
* Martinus Fabri
* Petrus de Goscalch
* Johannes Symonis Hasprois
* Matheus de Sancto Johanne
* Gacian Reyneau
* Rodericus
* Jacob Senleches
* Solage
* Johannes Susay
* Antonio Zacara da Teramo
* Trebor

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Others|

* Johannes Alanus
* John Dunstaple
* Contenance angloise
* Thomas Fabri
* Roy Henry
* Arnold de Lantins
* Leonel Power
* W. de Wycombe

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Theorists|

* Anonymous IV
* Guido of Arezzo
* Franco of Cologne
* Johannes Cotto
* Johannes de Garlandia
* Johannes de Grocheio
* Iacobus de Ispania
* Notker Labeo
* Johannes de Muris
* Walter Odington
* Berno of Reichenau
* Aurelian of Réôme

Musical forms|

* Antiphon
* Canso
* Carol
* Chanson
* Chansonnier
* Chant
* Conductus
* Estampie
* Formes fixes
* Ballade
* Rondeau
* Virelai
* Geisslerlied
* Gregorian chant
* Pope Gregory I
* Lai
* Tydorel
* Liturgical drama
* Madrigal
* Motet
* Organum
* Planctus

Traditions|

* British Isles
* England
* Scotland
* Cyprus
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Lithuania
* Portugal
* Spain

Derivations|

* Bardcore
* Medieval folk rock
* Medieval metal
* Neo-Medieval music

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