Musical Instruments in Medieval Art

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"The purpose of this paper is to discuss musicians and musical instruments as depicted in the visual arts of the period 900-1450 and to consider what can be deduced from such evidence about musical life in medieval Europe. Since hundreds of images from the medieval period showing musicians or instruments are available, this paper will discuss only a small selection of the more interesting and reproducible images, in order to survey the types of instruments that appear to have been in use.

In order to have some logical procedure for discussing the images, one would need to impose some sort of arbitrary categories. One possibility would be in terms of the medium. The art of this period falls into a relatively small number of genres. First, there is the art of the cathedrals. In this category falls sculpture, bas-relief, stained glass, icons.."

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