Four animals playing drum, positive organ, and bagpipes

  • Animaux musiciens
  • Animaux musiciens
  • Animaux musiciens

Summary

: Four animals playing drum, positive organ, and bagpipes

: Boston, England, United Kingdom
Location type : Church

: Boston, England, United Kingdom

: 14

: 1385 -1395

: Sculpture

: Wood

: Musicastallis

: Animaux musiciens


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Performer(s)
    • Performer information
    Type: musician

    Genre: animal

    Animal: undetermined

    Posture: Seated

    Instrument information
    Instrument : tabor - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 211.21 )
    Striking medium: right hand
    • Performer information
    Type: assistant

    Genre: animal

    Animal: undetermined

    Posture: Standing

    • Performer information
    Type: musician

    Genre: animal

    Animal: undetermined

    Posture: Standing

    Instrument information
    Instrument : organ - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 412.1-8 )
    • Performer information
    Type: musician

    Genre: animal

    Animal: undetermined

    Posture: Standing

    Instrument information
    Instrument : bagpipe - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 422.112-6 )




Number of performers: 4

Function of the sound: entertainment

Reference to music theory and musical perfection: disharmony

Instrumental classification: hauts and bas instruments

Context of the sound: parody music

Comment: Their convergent gazes indicate that the three animals are playing well together. The use of the bagpipes and drums could be an indication of a noisy type of music, but the addition of the positive organ indicates instead that the animal musicians parody the music of the church. The juxtaposition of the positive organ and the drum and bagpipes is too heterogeneous to portray a coherent musical ensemble, thereby suggesting dissonance.