The document summarizes Renaissance music instruments by classifying them into families similar to modern groups: winds, strings, and percussion. Wind instruments included those that used mouthpieces like brass instruments as well as those that used reeds like woodwinds. Examples discussed are the cornett, which had a mouthpiece like a trumpet but fingers like a recorder; recorders which came in different sizes producing different sounds; the shawm, an ancestor of the oboe and bassoon which used two reeds; and the sackbut, an ancestor of the modern trombone. Percussion included many types with drums being most common.

1. Renaissance Music Instruments

2. Instrument Families
-Instruments were classified into families similiar to
today's groups
-Winds
-Strings
-Percussion
-Instruments came in different
sizes, which produce different sounds

3. Wind Instruments
The wind instruments are very similiar to today.
Some used mouthpieces, like brass instruments.
Others used reeds, like woodwinds.

4. Cornett
-The cornett had a mouthpiece like a
trumpet, but used fingers like a recorder

5. Cornett
-The cornett came in different sizes and shapes, and
made different noises
The tenor cornett is called a
“Lizard” and the bass cornett
is a “Serpent¨

6. Recorder
-The recorder is the same as
the one you use today.
-The bigger the recorder, the
lower the sound.

7. Shawm
-The “shawm” is the ancestor of the oboe
and bassoon.
-It used two reeds, just like today's
instruments.

8. Sackbut
-The sackbut is an “ancestor” to the modern
trombone.

9. Percussion
-There were many types of percussion instruments
-The most common is the drum

10. Links
-Listen each instrument
-http://www.musicatschool.co.uk/lessons_online/re
n_online/ren_instruments.htm