Today's Sackbut, Shawm, and Crumhorn Playlist.

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TUGEND UND UNTUGEND
German Secular Songs and Instrumentals from the Time of Martin Luther
Convivium Musicum
Ensemble Villanella

Sven Berger, dir.

Naxos



...or any of these, for the purpose of this thread:

Archlute: A lute with two pegboxes, one of which has unfretted bass strings; it usually had 13 or 14 courses (single or double sets of strings).

Bagpipe: A wind instrument in which one or more of the reedpipes are attached to a windbag made of animal skins.

Bandora: A wire-strung, plucked instrument with a festooned outline, invented by John Rose of London in 1562.

Ceterone: A large cittern with extra bass strings like the theorbo, used during the late 16th and throughout the 17th century.

Chittarone: A large bass lute developed in Italy during the 16th century.

Citole, cet(e)ra: A wire-strung, plucked string instrument; the medieval form of the Renaissance cittern.

Cittern: A small, wire-strung, quill plucked string instrument, second in popularity to the lure.

Courtaut, courtaud: A 17th century double-reed woodwind instrument of cylindrical bore.

Crumhorn; Krumhorn: A wind-cap, double reed woodwind instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries. It has a narrow cylindrical bore and is shaped like the letter J. Among the most common of its several sizes were the alto, tenor, and extended bass.

Curtal, dulcian: A double-reed wind instrument, ancestor of the bassoon, developed in the mid-16th century. It has a single U-tube and conical bore. There were 5 sizes; soprano, alto, tenor, bass and great bass.

Duct Flute: A woodwind instrument blown at one end into a mouthpiece through a narrow passage and across the edge of a hole in the pipe.

Fiddle: Any bowed instrument from the Middle Ages, beginning in the 11th century through the early Renaissance.

Harp: A plucked instrument in which the plane of the strings is perpendicular to the soundboard.

Hurdy-Gurdy: A viol-shaped string instrument containing a set of melody and drone strings, a wooden wheel which acts as a bow, and a keyboard. It can also be called a barrel organ or barrel piano.

Jew’s Harp; Jaw’s Harp: A mouth-resonating percussion instrument composed of a single tongue of wood or metal fastened at one end to a U-shaped or keyhole frame.

Kamanja, kamanche: A Persian bowed spike fiddle, dating from the end of 1 A.D., with a round or heart shaped body, long neck and spike, and two to four strings (originally silk) tuned a perfect 4th apart. It has also been called a rabab.

Kithara: The most important plucked string instrument of Greco-Roman antiquity, larger and heavier than the lyre, which it resembles.

Lira da braccio: A bowed string instrument shaped like a violin, used by courtly Italian poet-musicians of the 15th and 16th centuries.

Lute: A plucked string instrument with an oblong, rounded body, a short, fretted neck, and a flat soundboard featuring a rosette.

Lyre, lira: A string instrument whose strings are parallel to the soundboard and attached to a crossbar between two arms, extending beyond the soundboard.

Mandolin: A small pear-shaped string instrument with a round back and a short neck developed from the 16th century mandora (an early lute).

Natural horn; slide trumpet: A brass instrument that lacks valves or keys and produces tones only in the harmonic series. A slide mechanism (additional tubing) is employed to increase the length and expand the variety of pitches produced.

Oboe: A conical-bode, double-reed woodwind instrument with a flared bell, descended from the Renaissance shawm.

Pandora, pandoura: A Greco-Roman lute with a long, thick neck and small soundbox.

Pipa: A fretted, pear-shaped, short-necked lute of China. It has four silk strings and is held upright resting on the player’s lap. The strings are plucked with the fingernails of the right hand.

Pipe and Tabor: A duck flute with three finger holes an a small snare from, both played by a single player, holding the pipe in the left hand and beating the tabor with a stick held in the left hand and beating the tabor with a stick held in the right.

Psaltry: A plucked zither of medieval Europe with a flat, wooden soundbox and a variable number of strings. Made in several shapes: trapezoidal, square, triangular, or pig’s snout (a trapezoidal with inward curving sides), it was popular from the 12th to 15th century. The psaltry descended from the ganun of the 11th and 12th centuries.

Qanun: A plucked zither of the Middle East. It has 50 – 100 strings of metal, gut or nylon strung in three courses over a trapezoidal or half trapezoidal box. It was held in the lap horizontally and plucked or strummed.

Rebec: A bowed string instrument derived from the ancient rabab and documented in Europe in the 13th century.

Recorder: A woodwind instrument with seven finger holes, a thumb hole, and end-blown through a whistle or fipple mouthpiece. It was also known as a fipple flute, blockflote, or English flute.

Sackbut: A long, narrow brass instrument with tube ends folded to overlap the center. Derived from the medieval trumped (the buisine), this early trombone appeared in Southern France and Northern Italy in the 15th century. Popular during the 16th and 17th centuries, it was traditionally played in groups of three (alto, tenor, and bass) in town and court bands with cornets for church services.

Shawm: A conical-bore, double-reed woodwind instrument, used extensively in European music from late 13th –17th century; ancestor to the oboe.

Sordun; sourdine: The early form of bassoon, also known as a courtaut.

Tablature: Musical notation using letters, numbers, or diagrams to specify pitch, rather than the conventional Western staff notation.

Theorbo: A large, six course bass lute with an additional set of seven or eight contrabass strings.

Transverse Flute, cross flute: A German term denoting a side-blown flute as opposed to the end-blown recorder.

Ud: A Middle Eastern, short necked, fretless lute with a bulging, pear-shaped body, and strings in double courses.

Vielle: A term used for any variety of bowed string instruments of the Middle Ages, including the viol, fiddle, and vielle a roué, the hurdy gurdy.

Vihuela: A large, waisted string instrument of Medieval and Renaissance Spain.

Viol: Family of bowed string instruments popular in the 16th to 18th centuries.

Viola bastardo: An Italian 16th and early 17th century small bass viol.

Viola d’amore: A bowed string instrument of the late 17th and 18th centuries, approximately the size of a viola and played on the shoulder, but having the body of a viol and provided with sympathetic strings (seven gut strings and seven metal sympathetic strings).

Viola da braccio: A 16th and 17th century bowed string instrument played played on the arm; later the term came to apply mainly to the viola.

Viola da gamba: A 16th and 17th century bowed string instrument played on or between the legs; any members of the viol family.

Viola di fagotto: A bowed string instrument with the tuning and range of the cello but played on the arm like a viola.

Viola pomposa: A bowed string instrument with five strings, played on the arm, between 1725 and 1770.

Violetta: A term used in 1553 to describe an early form of violin; a three-string instrument without frets. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it refers to the viola.

Violone: In the 16th century it referred to any viol. After 1600, it was used to denote any bass or contrabass viol. In the early 18th century, it was sometimes designated the violoncello.

Violino piccolo: A small violin of the 17th and 18th centuries; its strings tuned higher than the violin.

Violoncello piccolo: A small cello used in the early 18th century, called for in several of Bach’s cantatas.

Whistle: A small, end-blown pipe, usually a duct flute, made of wood, cane, metal, or plastic.

Zither: Any class of string instruments in which the strings are stretched over and run the length of the body that resonates. They may be plucked, bowed, struck, or set into vibration by the wind as Aeolian harps.
 
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What does on call the player of these instruments?

Sackbutter, Shawman, Crumhornier?

Your eclectic collection never ceases to amaze!
 
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O CIECO MONDO
(O Blind World)
The Italian Lauda C. 1400 - 1700
Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel, dir.

Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
 
Music of the Crusades

The Early Music Consort of London
David Munroe

Featuring the crumhorn and shawn, but no sackbuts.

recorded 1970; London CD 1991

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The Tarantula

mostly anonymous but does include Couperin's unsurpassed Les Barricades mysterieuses

Atrium Musicae de Madrid / Gregorio Paniagua
with many crumhorns

on hnh (Evanston, Illinois), from 1978
originally issued Harmonia Mundi (France), 1976
 
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The Art of Courtly Love
Volume I: Guillaume de Machaut and his age
Volume II: Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde
Volume III: The Court of Burgundy

The Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow
including a tenor sackbut, a tenor crumhorn, crumhorns, and shawms

3-LP box set on Seraphim (Hollywood, California), from 1973

On the left is David Munrow (1942-1976) with a shawm:

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The Art of Courtly Love
Volume I: Guillaume de Machaut and his age
Volume II: Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde
Volume III: The Court of Burgundy

The Early Music Consort of London / David Munrow
including a tenor sackbut, a tenor crumhorn, crumhorns, and shawms

3-LP box set on Seraphim (Hollywood, California), from 1973

On the left is David Munrow (1942-1976) with a shawm:

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Fantastic box. Getting that set in 1976 (following the news of Munrow's death) was a revelatory experience for my then-growing interest in Early Music.
 
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MUSIC OF THE GOTHIC ERA
The Early Music Consort of London
David Munrow, dir.

Archiv Produktion
 
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Ecco la Primavera (Spring is Coming)
Florentine Music of the 14th Century

mostly
Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
and anonymous

The Early Music Consort / David Munrow
James Bowman, counter tenor
Nigel Rogers, tenor
Martyn Hill, tenor
Oliver Brookes, bass viol
Mary Remnant, treble rebec, mediaeval fiddle
Robert Spencer. lute
Christopher Hogwood, organ, harp, percussion
Alan Lumsden, tenor sackbut
David Munrow, recorders, crumhorns, tenor shawm

on Argo (London), from 1969
 
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