Pierre Trichet

Trichet, Pierre

On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet

A seventeenth-century description of the sackbut captures its moving slide, chromatic freedom and bass role at a moment when the instrument was still being defined.

Trichet, Pierre

On the Cornett and Serpent

From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)

Written around 1640, Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique preserves a firsthand account of the cornett and serpent in musical life and construction.

Trichet, Pierre

On hunting horns and other similar instruments

Aus Pierre Trichets Traité des Instruments de Musique (um 1640)

Hunting horns, buccinae and cornets blur into one another as Trichet links ancient signals, shepherds, hunters and myth to the instruments of his own age.

Trichet, Pierre

On the Crumhorn

From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)

A seventeenth-century crumhorn leads from Roman lituus and alpine horns to reeds, finger holes and keys, exposing an unexpected family of curved instruments.

Trichet, Pierre

On Trumpets

Trumpets served war, ceremony and even medicine before Trichet turned to the mute, a simple device whose purpose extended far beyond changing the sound.