Angels playing the portative organ, the psaltery, the gittern and the vielle around the Virgin Nursing the Child

Summary

: Angels playing the portative organ, the psaltery, the gittern and the vielle around the Virgin Nursing the Child

: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location type : Museum

: Paris, Île-de-France, France

: 14

: -

: Sculpture

: Ivory

: Gothic Ivories

: Seated Virgin and Child, four musician angels


:
http://www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/images/ivory/dbfeda59_3680a4a7.html


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Performer(s)
    • Performer information
    Type: musician

    Genre: angel

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

    Genre: angel

    Instrument information
    Instrument : gittern - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 321.32 )
    • Performer information
    Type: musician

    Genre: angel

    Instrument information
    Instrument : psaltery - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 314.122.1 )
    • Performer information
    Type: musician

    Genre: angel

    Instrument information
    Instrument : vielle - (Hornbostel-Sachs system: 321.322-71 )




Number of performers: 4

Function of the sound: glorification, order

Reference to music theory and musical perfection: harmony

Source of musical inspiration: Virgin Mary

Context of the sound: angelic music