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The Musica Consort Vera


I also recollect Ms. Austin stating that the instruments were very difficult play, thus are not used in modern music today. As I was remembering Ms. Austin's comment, I observed that some of the musicians were even switching instruments during pieces. For instance in the song Trotto , a medieval monophonic dance tune, they used seven various sized recorders , a whistle mouthpiece instrument, throughout the entire song. I thought the musicians to be extremely talented to play not just one difficult instrument, but many instruments during a piece. To have vocals as well complicates the pieces even more. The lyrics of the song vary in language, making it even harder for the vocalist to sing in the right key and at the correct meter. Kitts-Turner mentioned that many pieces do not have a definite meter. Meter determines the number of beats per measure. Thus having an indefinite meter setups the piece to be difficult with a different number of beats per measure. This makes the music hard to read and hard to play at fast tempo. The difficulty level of Renaissance music is far more than today's music created solely by electronics. .
             Again, the musicians used many different instruments each varying in size and sound. Certain songs had a predominate sound that could be distinctly heard. I always noticed the krummhorn because of its j-shaped appearance that had internal reed giving it a bagpipe like sound. I could also hear the cornetti , an instrument that resembles a trumpet but of course composed of wood. The Native American song, Peace and Fellowship , was composed for the Native American flutes , hand made instruments created by the early American Indians and are essentially comparable to recorders. Another song, La Bergamasca by Gasparo Zanet ti, was for the instruments called the gemshorns . They were made of animal horns with recorder mouthpieces. In addition, the song Allmand by William Brade, was produced for the shawms .


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