The "Lute," the major tool in the Renaissance:
The Lute was an instrument whose strings were plucked by the fingers. It consisted of 5 or 6 string 4 or 5 of which were doubles, and the remaining 1 or 2, being the most acute, were composed of a simple string c 'ropes were also other more serious, but were not played often, and were on the side of the keyboard.
This instrument had its largest spread between the XV and XVII century, and it is thought that originally it was the most popular musical instrument used by the Arabs, who brought it to Spain where, with several changes, spread throughout Europe.
one who wrote several compositions for the lute was Francesco da Milano, as to be called by his contemporaries as "the Divine".
String instruments: the Lira "arm" and the Pound "da gamba"
The Lira was a tool invented by the ancient Greeks. The strings were varied according to time and, since 'antiquity, plucked with the plectrum.
From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century was called Pound "arm" to "seven strings" or "modern" instrument like the viola but one that not only had more strings on the sounding board but also the sides of the same (Drones).
(Lira da Gamba)
The Lira is divided into different groups in the Renaissance:
lyre with 5 or 7-string and two drones
Lirone arm, with a shape equal to the lyre, but larger and with a sound that is the worst sound of 'current purple.
Lira da Gamba with 12 strings and two drone with a sound similar to the modern cello.
Arhiviola from Lira that as many as 24 strings,
(lyre) corresponded to the tone of the bass and was also named Lirone or agreement.
(lyre)
keyboard instruments: the 'organ, harpsichord and the spinet:
L 'BODY:
The first organ dates back to the mists of time and perhaps descended from an instrument called a "syringe". Already in the II century a. C. there were real bodies, equipped with a keyboard and bellows used to compress the 'water: this is called a hydraulic organ, known in the' classical age as hidraulis or hidraulos and Italian plumber. Later instruments were built that is operated by the 'water. 'S body was developed especially to Byzantium, and was made with different sizes but in' Western Europe is still not known.
in the ninth century German and French monks were concerned to build small parts, but only for the 'teaching of singing. It seems that the first records were used for the first time in the twelfth century. And to the first XV appeared the reeds, while the pedals appeared later.
Among the first major organs can be cited to Aachen, the degree of the ninth century and that of Winchester, built in 951.
L 'art of organ building in the Italian Renaissance was developed mainly in the Veneto, Tuscany and Lombardy.
L 'modern organ is a wind instrument is large in terms of size, and from that of the' amplitude of the sound. It can be seen as a result of the merger between various air tools, put into action by various complex mechanisms.
's body is made up primarily of three main parts which are:
The sound material: tubes and pipes.
The bellows that are used to produce the 'compressed air required for the production of sound and the mechanism
: keyboards and records
tubes or pipes are divided into groups called registers that include rods of various sizes but of stamp and construction identical . Each record represents a different instrument and has so many tubes as there are notes which form its extension.
Each grouping is done so that the pipes can be closed or opened by means of buttons or pins so that the 'organist can put into action the various combinations instrumental. The mechanism is driven by the keyboard (2 to 5 keyboards) and pedals (keyboard actuated by the feet that correspond to sounds more serious).
The bellows that until recently were driven by hand, modern organs are driven by an electric, as well as the impulses that go from the keyboard to the barrel.
HARPSICHORD:
This tool is generally recognized as the ancestor of the piano because it was in use before the period between the fifteenth century and the eighteenth century. His names are many, ranging from 'apicordo gravicembalo until the cymbal. The harpsichord is very different from the piano as the strings latter 'are made to play through the wedges, while the harpsichord was plucked from some pen nibs attached to certain levers these jacks. For this reason it has always been classified as a plucked instrument like the lute.
It was formed in general, four octaves in general, and also built two or three keyboards with different intensity and strength of the records that changed the sound and timbre.
After a period of decline, the harpsichord has been revived by Wanda Landowska resurrected.
SPINETTA:
The spinet is also a keyboard instrument. According to some fairly reliable sources, the name comes from Venetian harpsichord Giovanni Spinetti who in 1503 reformulated the structure of the harpsichord (a pinch or pick) to add the keyboard. It is spread primarily after the sixteenth century until the end of 1700. This instrument vaguely remembered the form of an instrument the English virginal. Some say the original form of the spinet was elongated polygonal structure, such as to be easily moved. Over time
assumed a form table with the keyboard inside.
It evolved primarily in the eighteenth century in Italy and the countries of the 'Northern Europe.
stringed instruments: the 'harp:
ARPA:
The harp is one of the oldest musical instruments. It is played by plucking the strings with your hands, metal (in modern harps, the strings can be either 42 or 46), stretched from the top to one of the lower sides. This tool has a triangular shape. The earliest harps back to the time of the ancient Egyptians. The first Celtic harp dates back to 1220 and is preserved in the museum in Dublin. spread in Italy in 'high society thanks to minnes'a'nger Germans and the French jugglers.
The Renaissance wind instruments: flute, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, horns, and the bomb:
FLUTE:
The flute is a musical instrument consisting of a conical cylinder from one side and 'other, where you blow to produce sound (reed). air slamming against the walls that are open or closed, depending on the sound you want. In the Renaissance it was used to accompany dances and dances in the noble courts.
BASSOON:
a bundle, we have the first hint at the beginning of the sixteenth century, as a canon of Ferrara, had given the name of Bassoon at a wind instrument of his invention. It is usually made of wood (usually maple or rosewood), with the 'reed mouthpiece. The tube is divided into five parts, and has six holes (in the German system there five).
His sound is reminiscent of the low 'oboe and instrumental ensemble of the woods.
, too, like the flute was used in the Renaissance courts to enliven the holidays and accompanying music and dance.
TRUMPET:
wind instruments, made of brass, has ancient origins: in the 'classical era, there were tubes and the Lithuanian, who were his ancestors. In the Middle Ages it was used in military music, parades and battles. A
its variety, with 'reed' s brass and cornetto (XVI - XVIII). Later I discovered the clarinet (XVII - XVIII).
The modern trumpet, has a loud sound and sometimes shrill, but always incisive and solemn.
In the Renaissance there were the pistons and, like the trombone, the sounds were created with the mouth.
TROMBONE:
, too, such as the trumpet is a wind instrument and as the conches Roman ancestors. It is equipped with pistons that create the sound, but that did not exist during the Renaissance and had to arrange with your mouth to create the desired sound.
Throughout his life, the trombone has undergone various changes that have altered, sometimes radically, the nature and timbre of sounds, even changing its hue.
HORN: The
horn is an instrument used once in battle and now is in the 'orchestra. It is very popular so you have a quotation in 'oliphant of Orlando in the' Orlando Furioso. " In the seventeenth century, the horses introduced in the 'orchestra since some of his notes are very useful in' orchestral harmony. The horn is divided into several branches, among which c 'is the famous English horn, but whose shape does not reflect that of the traditional hunting horn is still used today.
BOMBS
The bomb is a musical instrument double-reed woodwind, part of the family of oboes. E 'was used mainly in the fifteenth century and the seventeenth century in the Renaissance courts, and is used today in popular music in some countries. 
