List of medieval musical instruments explained

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

Percussion

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

String instruments

• Citole^{[5] [6]}
• Cretan lyra
• Dulcimer
• Fiddle
• Gittern
• 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

Wind instruments

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

External links

• Zampogne e Ciaramella

Notes and References

1. Gutwirth . Eleazar . 1998 . Music, Identity and the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain . Early Music History . 17 . 161–181 . 0261-1279.
2. Book: The Jew's harp : a comprehensive anthology . 1988 . Bucknell University Press . Leonard Fox . 0-8387-5116-4 . Lewisburg . 16356799.
3. Book: Mauricio Molina . Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula . 2006 . 978-0-542-85095-0 . 101– . 25 December 2012.
4. Web site: TIMBREL - JewishEncyclopedia.com . 2016-05-13 . Jewishencyclopedia.com.
5. https://www.britishmuseum_objects/pe_mla/c/citole.aspx
6. Web site: Baker . Paul . The Gittern and Citole . 4 December 2016.
7. Book: Galpin, Francis William . Old English Instruments of Music . 1911 . A. C. McClurg and Company . Chicago . 21–22.
8. 1979 . A Panoply of Instruments for Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music . Music Educators Journal . 65 . 9 . 38–69 . 10.2307/3395616 . 0027-4321.
9. Web site: Spohnheimer . The Rebec . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160504060028/http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/rebec.htm . 2016-05-04 . 2016-05-13 . Music.iastate.edu.
10. Web site: About the Viol . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150203130419/http://vdgsa.org/pgs/the_viol.html . 2015-02-03 . 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 . 0363-6941.
12. Web site: Spohnheimer . The Sacbut . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160504052436/http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/sacbut.htm . 2016-05-04 . 2016-05-13 . Music.iastate.edu.
13. Web site: Spohnheimer . The Renaissance Shawm . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160525065002/http://www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/renshawm.htm . 2016-05-25 . 2016-05-13 . Music.iastate.edu.