What is the Renaissance flute?
The Renaissance flute is a wooden tool of the flute family. Usually handmade wood, but in rare cases of ivory, is a Renaissance flute of the relatives of the modern flutes that people use today. This flute was carved with six holes and side openings, similar to FIFE. Most of the Renaissance flute was an octave of two ranges and usually played to the top to accompany other tools. Musicians created soprano, alt, tenor and bass varieties for accompanying flutes.
During the Renaissance, defined as the era of great cultural progress in Europe between the 14th and 17th table, musical instrumentation and technology flourished. The Renaissance flute, created in various courses for complex musical accompaniment, is an example of the rebirth of structured music and music concerts. It was primarily considered to be an accompaniment, lending exotic, breathing intonations for ceremonial celebrations such as dances, Weddings and court banquets.
As a type of cross flute or transverse flutes, the Renaissance flute was unique from other flutes at that time. Unlike the trumpet and the recorder, in which the musician held the trumpet at one end, down from his position on the mouth of the player, the transverse flute was held on the right side and the player plunged the air into the flute held at an angle. The player tapped on the small holes in the pipeline to create different playgrounds from the movement of air in the pipeline. This instrument is therefore related to modern flutes as one of the first cross instruments of Woodwind.
The transverse flute was first observed in the Chinese art of the ninth century and later in the ancient Etruscan Reliens in the second and third centuries B.C. While it can be seen in Germany during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance flute experienced a revival in the 14th century by the Royal Courts in Spain, France Italy. At the beginning of the 16th century it was a common instrument in most European music repertoires, even listed in the judicial inventory of King Henry VIIII. In the year 1528 The German composer Martin Agricola recommended that the transverse flutes be purchased in the corresponding sets, so that the flutes were in harmony with each other. At first, the music technique, in which the musician creates a regular pulsating change in the playground, was used for the Renaissance flute at this time.
Today there are very little original Renaissance flutes. Most of the knowledge of the instrument comes from European art and descriptions and the use of a tool by Renaissance composers. The tool was usually built from boxwood or fruit wood. Kork stopped one end of the flute. Unlike the modern flute, the Renaissance flute had no thumb hole. According to various depictions in art, it seems that the Renaissance flute was used primarily for military purposes and as a chamber instrument of the F or the Royal Courts.