What instruments would you find in a church?

Answer 1

AnswerChurch services didn't have music like we know. It was mainly chants by monks. Some of these chants can be heard today on CD and there are religions that still have monks chanting as they did 1,000 years ago. The Russian Orthodox is one such church. AnswerThe most important medieval church instrument was the organ. The pipe organ found in older churches of today is very similar to the medieval instruments. Positive organs were small instruments that could be moved from place to place. In the later Middle Ages, larger organs were built that were permanently installed.

Other instruments used by churches included a range of instruments that could be used in processions. These included a smaller organ called a portative organ, which was a pipe organ so small a person could carry it and play it at the same time. Recorders, pipes, dulcimers, harps, fiddles, lutes, bells and other instruments were also used in processions. There were instruments of types that no longer exist, such as the tromba marina, which was played with a bow, had a single string, and could produce notes in the harmonic series by lightly touching the string at nodes.

The music used in the Middle Ages included some hymns that are still sung today. In the middle ages, the idea of purely instrumental music was something rather new, and an instrument was conceived as having a voice, just as a human had a voice. A piece of music might have a tenor voice, and the tenor voice could be played by an instrument, sung by a person or both.

The oldest musical Mass we have that was composed as a single unit by a single composer, Messe de Nostre Dame, written in about 1365, probably had its polyphonic voices performed by both instruments and human voices. The Missa and Credo sections of this had no chant basis.

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Answer 2

AnswerIn Europe, the Hurdy Gurdy. AnswerThe commonest musical instrument of the Middle Ages was probably the recorder, because it was inexpensive and relatively easy to play.

The most expensive medieval instrument, and the instrument considered the greatest and noblest, was the organ.

I would guess the best instrument for a peasant dance might have been Bagpipes, in the Late Middle Ages. It could have been so earlier, too, but we have little in the way of records.

In much of the Early Middle Ages, an instrument very commonly favored by minstrels was the harp.

Answer 3

An organ or more traditionally a pipe organ.

Answer 4

Organs