Dwarsfluit

anonymous, c. 1590 - c. 1596

Music has always been a crucial element of public celebrations, such as military parades, coronations, royal weddings, and funerals, adding grandeur to the solemnity of the occasion. Musical ensembles entrusted with performing music at these events have existed in Europe since the Middle Ages. This display highlights various marching bands and their musical instruments dating from the 16th to the 19th century.

  • Artwork typeflute, wind instrument, musical instrument, transverse flute
  • Object numberNG-NM-7692
  • Dimensionslength 640 mm x diameter 22 mm

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Flute

  • Object type

  • Object number

    NG-NM-7692

  • Description

    Dwarsfluit van beukenhout met vijf gaten en de resten van een zesde gat. Nabij het mondgat bevindt zich een zevende gat. De fluit is aan het uiteinde gebroken.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    mark

Creation

  • Creation

    musical instrument maker: anonymous, Netherlands

  • Dating

    c. 1590 - c. 1596

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    length 640 mm x diameter 22 mm

This work is about

  • Person

  • Subject

  • Place

  • Period

    1596 - 1597

Exhibitions

Acquisition and rights

Documentation

    • Jan Bouterse, 'Muziekinstrumenten draaien deel II: De Renaissancewarsfluit', AktieRadius 55 (Sept., 2007), p. 20-26: 20
    • Jan Bouterse, 'Making woodwind instruments - 9. Flutes (traversos)', FoMRHI Quarterly 137 (Apr., 2017), Comm. 2068
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instruments, 1670-1820', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 38 (1988), p. 99-122: 116
    • Philippe Allain-Dupré, 'Proportions of Renaissance tenor flutes and relationship of Verona flutes to foot-lenght standards', The Galpin Society Journal 59 (May, 2006), p. 21-27: 22-23
    • Boaz Berney, 'The Renaissance flute in mixed ensembles: surviving instruments, pitches and performance practice', Early Music 34, nr. 2 (May, 2006), p. 205-223: 207, 218
    • Jan Bouterse, 'Traverso's bouwen, spelen en ontwerpen - Deel 3: Renaissance fluiten', Bouwbrief 146 (Aug., 2012), p. 10-16: 13-15
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instrument Makers from 1670 to 1820', The Galpin Society Journal 41 (Oct., 1988), p. 83-101: 101
    • Louwrens Hacquebord, 'In search of het behouden huys: a survey of the remains of the house of Willem Barentsz on Novaya Zemlya', Arctic 48, nr. 3, 'Man and the Barents Sea Ecosystems' (Sep., 1995), p. 248-256: 251
    • Rob van Acht, 'Niederländische Blasinstrumente, 1670-1820', Tibia: Magazin für freunde alter und neuer bläsermusik 15, nr. 3 (1990), p. 169-185: 173
    • Jan Bouterse, 'Early Dutch fipple flutes, with emphasis on the seventeenth century and Jacob van Eyck', The Recorder in the 17th century: Proceedings of the International Recorder Symposium, Utrecht 1993, ed. by David Lasocki, STIMU, Foundation for Historical Performance Practice, Utrecht, 1995, p. 77-90:78-79, 81, plate 2
    • Giovanni Paolo di Stefano, 'Music Parade: a new display at the Rijksmuseum', CIMCIM Bulletin (Apr., 2020), p. 30-33: 30-31
    • Jan Bouterse, 'Renaissance dwarsfluit', De Bouwbrief 44 (Feb., 1987), p. 16
    • Philippe Allain-Dupré, 'Renaissance and early Baroque flutes: an update on surviving instruments, pitches and consort grouping', The Galpin Society Journal 57 (May, 2004), p. 53-61: 54
    • Willem Heijting, 'Boeken en lectuur in het behouden huys: de gedrukte werken in de Barentsz-collectie van et Rijksmuseum', Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekeschiedenis 4 (1997), p. 147-168: 154

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