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I think the music from this era is basic, but its very peaceful. I think its very basic and peaceful because it is religious and the coordination of the people singing (chorus) is awesome. From this era I learn about instruments like the lute, harpsichord, some composers, etc. I would recommend this music for a religious audience because most of the music is religious.

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The type of music in this example is Sacred music and I dont identify any instruments. I only identify chorus (vocal).

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Allegri | Miserere mei | King's College, Cambridge

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Gregorio Allegri was an Italian composer from The Renaissance Era.

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In this example the type of music is Sacred music and I dont identify any instruments. I only identify the chorus (vocal).

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If ye love me (Thomas Tallis) - The King's Singers

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Thomas Tallis was an English composer from the Renaissance Era. The music from Thomas Tallis was the most sacred.

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I think in this example the type of music is sacred and the instruments I identify were the viol and harpsichord.

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Claudio  Monteverdi - Magnificat (complete)

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Claudio Monteverdi was a composer from The Renaissance Era. He was originally from the country Italy. He composed both sacred and secular music.

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I think the type of music Josquin de Pres in this example is Sacred Music, but Josquin de Prez did both sacred and secular music. I don't identify instruments I only identify the chorus (vocal).

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Josquin de Prez was a composer of the Renaissance Era. He was origin from the northeastern France or Belgium.

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I am going to add 4 composers from The Renaissance Era.

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This instrument I think sounds the same as a trombone.

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This instrument I think it sounds similar as the drums.

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This instrument I think it sounds similar as a guitar.

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This instrument I think it sounds as a violin or a viola.

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Menuett - treble & alto viol by Telemann

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The instrument Harp I think it sounds very similar to a Celtic Harp.

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This instrument I think it sounds very similar as the piano.

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Kenneth Slowik, curator of the Musical Instrument Collection at National Museum of American History and artistic director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, shows us how he plays the harpsichord.

Smithsonian Artifact Featured in this Video

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Description

This instrument was made by Benoist Stehlin of Paris in the mid-1700s, the golden era of French harpsichord manufacture. Austrian-born, Stehlin lived in relative obscurity, devoting his life to the building of harpsichords. This is one of three known to survive. Another (dated 1750) is at the Museé Antoine Lecuyer in St. Quentin, France, and a third (dated 1767) at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum in Berlin, Germany. Government inventories of 1774 show Stehlin to have operated a thriving business, but many of his instruments, like those of his contemporaries, were destroyed during the French Revolution.

Nonetheless, this Stehlin represents the classical French instrument, with a 4'-and two 8'-registers, plus a particularly attractive buff stop, which slightly damps the strings' vibration by bringing small pieces of soft leather into contact with them near the nut. It is appropriate for much of the great French solo and ensemble repertoire, from François Couperin to Jean-Philippe Rameau and Jacques Duphly.

This instrument is used in concerts and featured on recordings by the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society.

Recordings currently available can be found at:

http://www.smithsonianchambermusic.org/recordings

Location

Currently not on view

Physical Description

wood (overall material)

paint (overall material)

Measurements

overall: 37 1/8 in x 37 1/2 in x 93 3/4 in; 94.2975 cm x 95.25 cm x 238.125 cm

Object Name

harpsichord

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Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments

Music & Musical Instruments

Place Made

France: Île-de-France, Paris

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Kenneth Slowik, curator of the Musical Instrument Collection at National Museum of American History and artistic director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, shows us how he plays the harpsichord. Data Source National Museum of American History Description This instrument was made by Benoist Stehlin of Paris in the mid-1700s, the golden era of French harpsichord manufacture.

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There were very popular instruments during The Renaissance Era, but I am going to include only 6 instruments of all the popular instruments there were.

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The Secular Music form The Renaissance Era make me feel excited and I notice that it is different to the Sacred Music because the Secular Music if for an audience with non-religious purposes and it is sing it out of a church.

I think the difference between the music from the Middle Ages and the music from The Renaissance Era is that music in the Middle Ages was mostly in vocal and in the Renaissance Era music was of both vocal and now they implement instruments.

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No Cross? Secular Music? This Is A Church?

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The Sacred Music from The Renaissance Era makes me feel as if everything was at peace because the chorus of the persons sounds very good and it is a type of music that we don't hear too much, but when you hear it in my case I feel very peaceful and happy.

I think the difference between the music from the Renaissance Era and the Middle Ages is that during the period from the Middle Ages it was that is monophonic and in the Renaissance Era music became polyphonic and it involves multiple independent parts.

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Rescuing sacred music of the Renaissance

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The Renaissance era was during the years 1450-1600.

What was happening in the world during these years? There were happening a lot of things for example the most important were Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press that can mass-produce books in 1440, Da Vinci started to paint the Mona Lisa in 1503, The philosopher Descartes gave the famous statement "I think, therefore I am."

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I think the Middle Ages were very different at the present like we are talking thousand of years ago. Middle Ages was very concentrated in religious music for the church and because their two types of music that are the polyphony and monophony. The instruments used during this period were a lot like the flute, harp, drums, etc, but the principal one was the lute. I think the music in the Middle Ages is very good because is people singing one melody but in group like coordinate.

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The lute was a very principal instrument during the Middle Ages.

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The instruments were all used during the Middle Ages to accompany dances and singing. The instruments used were the flute, harp, drums, vielle, etc.

Example

An example of the instruments is that the trumpets and horns were used by nobility, and organs.

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Who were they? The troubador is represented as a composer, the jongleur as mere performer. The minstrels were superior kind of jongleur, holding a regular post in a nobleman's household.

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Monophony is all vocalists are singing the same melody.

Polyphony is when each part has an individual melody but the parts still harmonize.

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What is a chant?
A chant is a melody in which several words or syllabes are sung in one tone.

What is a neume?
Is in the musical notation, a sign for one or a group of successive musical pitches.

Examples
-Palestrina, Missa assumpta est Maria (Seventh Book of Masses)
-Mozart, Great Mass in C Minor, K. 427.

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Sacred Music is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. Chants became a problem becasue they were many chants created, so eventually chants were complied into books to be kept for future monks to sing. There was a monk that create his own chants named Hildegard Von Bingen.

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Secular Music mean music that was sung outside the church. Is music that is intended for a non-religious audience.

An example of secular music is "Summer Is Icummen In" by the Hilliard Ensemble.

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450-1450

The middle ages also known as the Medieval Era was a time in history that spanned about a thousand a thousand years. The popular music of the day was vocal music and it was classified two ways sacred and secular.