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Lute
Lute can refer to: *Any plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back, as well as *specifically an instrument from the family of European lutes. The European lute and the Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths. The words 'lute' and 'oud' may have derived from Arabic ''al‘ud'', "the wood", though recent research by Eckhard Neubauer suggests that ''‘ud'' may simply be an Arabized version of the Persian name ''rud'',... More »
Viol
The viol is any one of a family of bowed, fretted stringed musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The family is related to and descends primarily from the Spanish vihuela . Some degree of developmental influence, if only in playing posture, is credited to the Moorish ''rabab'' as well. More »
Viola d'amore
The viola d'amore is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. It is played under the chin in the same manner as the violin. More »
Baroque orchestra
The Baroque orchestra is the earliest example of a true orchestra which came into existence in the mid-late 1600s. Its origins were in France where Jean-Baptiste Lully added the newly re-designed hautboy and transverse flutes to his vingt-quatre violons du Roy. As well as violins and woodwinds, the baroque orchestra would have still contained continuo instruments such as the theorbo and harpsichord. The baroque orchestra was reasonably small with the maximum of thirty people. More »
Baroque trumpet
A "lip-vibrated aerophone," the baroque trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family . A baroque trumpet is a brass instrument used in the 16th through 18th centuries, or a modern replica of a period instrument. Modern reproductions include both natural trumpets and the slightly embellished vented trumpets . More »
Baroque violin
A baroque violin is, in common usage, any violin whose neck, fingerboard, bridge, and tailpiece are of the type used during the baroque period. Such an instrument may be an original built during the baroque and never changed to modern form; or a modern replica built as a baroque violin; or an older instrument which has been converted to baroque form. Following period practices, most baroque violinists use gut strings. This lends a certain purity and at times earthiness to the sound. More »
Oboe da caccia
The oboe da caccia is a double reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family, pitched a fifth below the oboe and used primarily in the Baroque period of European classical music. More »
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