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History of Double Reeds
Title: History of Double Reeds
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 1416 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
History of Double Reeds
The Middle Ages and Renaissance Periods were a time of much development both musically and instrumentally. Instrumental playing became steadily more popular and more commonly performed. Among the first instruments being played were double reeds, or shawms, along with other various instruments such as the flute, aulos, harp, and lute. These first double reed instruments became the basis and influenced many of the modern day instruments such as the oboe and bassoon. They are also …showed first 75 words of 1416 total…
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Works Cited
Grout, Donald Jay and Claude V. Palisca A History of Western Music. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2001
Greiringer, Karl Musical instruments, their history in western culture from the stone age to the present. New York, Oxford University Press, 1945
Paetkau, David H. The growth of instruments and instrumental music. New York, Vantage Press, 1962
Sachs, Curt. The history of musical instruments. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1940
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