Musical instruments from the western world of the Baroque, Renaissance, Medieval and earlier periods.
Subcategories 17
Related categories 1
Sites 23
- Joëlle Morton's Historical Bass The history of bass string instruments such as the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, along with their performance practices and iconography.
- Tapia's Gold - Instruments of the Renaissance Descriptions of instruments used for dance music during the Renaissance, illustrated with period drawings.
- Culturekiosque Klassiknet: Baroque Instruments A dictionary to provide the music lover with a reasonable amount of information about period instruments.
- Rebec Page Origin and history of the rebec, construction, playing, tuning, bibliography, and many illustrations.
- Contrabass Compendium A list of bass and contrabass instruments, past and present.
- Lars' Baroque Flute Corner Information on the Baroque flute, including instrument care and fingering charts.
- Mary Rasmussen's Horn and Lute Iconography Iconography of the horn, lute, pipe and tabor, and tambourine in Western-European Art.
- Links to History of Musical Instruments Includes links to museums and collections, historical guides, historical sources and facsimiles, societies, individual instruments, and world instruments.
- The Saxon Lyre History, construction, and playing techniques.
- Diabolus in Musica Guide to Early Instruments Information on as many early instruments as possible.
- Lute-Harpsichord: A Forgotten Instrument Bach sought, and had custom-built, a harpsichord which sounded like a lute. Detailed description of history and construction.
- Curtal, Dulcian, Bajón: A History of the Precursor to the Bassoon A book by Maggie Kilbey charting the history and development of the instrument and includes a catalogue of extant instruments around the world.
- Early Music Vincent Ho Early music and instruments, sound files of harpsichords and clavichords, and a table with pictures of the author's early music instruments collection, from medieval psalteries to Renaissance recorders.
- Kenneth Sparr Information about lute, guitar and early keyboards.
- Medieval and Renaissance Instruments Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide: pictures, descriptions, and history.
- Neanderthal Flute Musicological analysis by Bob Fink of the oldest musical instrument, including its significance to the origin of music.
- Stages in Evolution of Scales, Melody and Harmony Paper about the stages in the origins of music and its development.
- Bate Collection of Musical Instruments An extensive and systematic collection of European orchestral woodwind instruments donated to the University of Oxford by Philip Bate.
- Windcaps Early music in various manifestations by Mark W Venn, including handmade Renaissance woodwind instruments, Cotswold Early Music Festival (formerly the Cirencester Early Music Festival), and the "Mozart" music software.
- Dulcians A description of the Dulcian or Curtal, which is the Renaissance predecessor of the bassoon.
- Renaissance Cittern Page Information on its history, articles, art, music, recordings, players, composers, and builders.
- National Music Museum Founded as an academic support unit of The University of South Dakota, this collection includes more than 10,000 American, European, and non-Western instruments from virtually all cultures and historical periods.
- Kim Christensen's Music Museum Private collection of music instruments with pictures, sound samples, history, and functional description. [English, Danish, German]