Els àngels músics, testimoni de la vida musical del Castelló del segle XV

Abstract

Performers of medieval music rely on a range of sour­ces to aid their reconstruction of medieval sound, iconography being extraordinarily informative in that sense. This article focuses on the wide collection of instruments played by the musician angels in the altar­piece of Basilica of Saint Mary at Castelló d’Empúries. Representations such as this are a privileged source to approach the study of medieval instruments, some of which would not be known solely from either do­cumentation or extant pieces