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Alta cappella, the Glossary

An alta cappella or alta musica (Italian), haute musique (French) or just alta was a kind of town wind band found throughout continental Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, which typically consisted of shawms and slide trumpets or sackbuts.^[1]

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Instrumental musical groups

Basse danse

The basse danse, or "low dance", was a popular court dance in the 15th and early 16th centuries, especially at the Burgundian court. Alta cappella and basse danse are Renaissance music.

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Cancionero de Palacio

The Cancionero de Palacio (Madrid, Biblioteca Real, MS II–1335), or Cancionero Musical de Palacio (CMP), also known as Cancionero de Barbieri, is a Spanish manuscript of Renaissance music. Alta cappella and Cancionero de Palacio are Renaissance music.

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Cantus firmus

In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed melody") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition. Alta cappella and cantus firmus are Renaissance music.

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Castell

A castell (literally, castle) is a human tower built traditionally at festivals in a part of Catalonia (Spain), now also found in the rest of Catalonia, in the Balearic islands and in the Valencian Community.

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Catalan shawm

In music, a Catalan shawm is one of two varieties of shawm, an oboe-like woodwind musical instrument played in Catalonia in northeastern Spain.

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Cobla

The cobla (plural cobles) is a traditional music ensemble of Catalonia, and in Northern Catalonia in France.

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Daniel Heartz

Daniel Heartz (1928–2019) was an American musicologist and professor emeritus of music at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Edward Tarr

Edward Hankins Tarr (June 15, 1936 – March 24, 2020), was an American trumpet player and musicologist.

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Francisco de la Torre

Francisco de la Torre (c. 1460 - c. 1504) was a Spanish composer mainly active in the Kingdom of Naples.

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Gralla (instrument)

The gralla, also known as grall de pastor, xaramita or xirimita, is a traditional Catalan double reed instrument in the shawm family classified in the group 422.112 in the Hornbostel-Sachs system.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Howard Mayer Brown

Howard Mayer Brown (April 13, 1930 – February 20, 1993) was an American musicologist.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Psaltery

A psaltery (ψαλτήρι) (or sawtry, an archaic form) is a fretboard-less box zither (a simple chordophone) and is considered the archetype of the zither and dulcimer.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.

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Ross W. Duffin

Ross W. Duffin is a Canadian-American scholar, educator, and choral conductor, specializing in historical performance practice of early music.

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Sackbut

A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras. Alta cappella and sackbut are Renaissance music.

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Sardana

The sardana (plural sardanes in Catalan) is a Catalan musical genre typical of Catalan culture and danced in circle following a set of steps.

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Shawm

The shawm is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day.

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Slide trumpet

The slide trumpet is an early type of trumpet fitted with a movable section of telescopic tubing, similar to the slide of a trombone.

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Tabor (instrument)

A tabor,, tabret (Tabwrdd), tambour de Provence, Provençal tambourin or Catalan tamborí is a portable snare drum, typically played either with one hand or with two drumsticks.

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Tower music

Tower music is a musical performance from the top of a tower.

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Vielle

The vielle is a European bowed stringed instrument used in the medieval period, similar to a modern violin but with a somewhat longer and deeper body, three to five gut strings, and a leaf-shaped pegbox with frontal tuning pegs, sometimes with a figure-8 shaped body.

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Viol

The viol, viola da gamba, or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.

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Wait (musician)

From medieval times up to the early 19th century, every British town and city of any note had a band of waites (modern spelling Waits or Waitts). Alta cappella and wait (musician) are Renaissance music.

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Wind instrument

A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_cappella

Also known as Alta Capella, Alta ensemble.