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The Musical Language: Instruments |
Instruments must be able to express the 'Affections'
The colourful variety of instruments
developed in the renaissance carries over into the baroque.
Few new instruments are developed (except the fortepiano),
but features such as the tone production in many of the
existing instruments are developed in such a way to allow
them to better express the affections in the music; other
instruments incapable of this are soon out of fashion. The
most common instruments (in various sizes and shapes)
are:
- in art music: violin
viola da Gamba,
cello,
lute,
guitar,
theorbo,
harp,
harpsichord;
organ;
flute,
oboe,
cornett;
trumpet,
horn;
timpani
- in folk music rustic instruments: octave violin,
hurdy-gurdy, guitar, hakkebord, jews harp, fife,
schalmei, bagpipe, crumhorn, drum, castanets
xylophone, rattles.
In the early baroque there are many
instruments which later develop into the oboe or clarinet.
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