Pierre Trichet
5 Articles by Pierre Trichet
Brass Bulletin 45 - 1 / 1984
Trichet, Pierre
On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet
From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)
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.
pp. 10–12
Brass Bulletin No 45 · 1984
Trombone· History· Equipment· Historical instruments
Brass Bulletin 46 - 2 / 1984
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.
pp. 12–15
Brass Bulletin No 46 · 1984
Cornett· Serpent· History· Equipment· Historical instruments
Brass Bulletin 47 - 3 / 1984
Trichet, Pierre
On hunting horns and other similar instruments
From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 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.
pp. 51–54
Brass Bulletin No 47 · 1984
Horn· History· Equipment· Historical instruments
Brass Bulletin 48 - 4 / 1984
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.
pp. 71–73
Brass Bulletin No 48 · 1984
History· Equipment· Historical instruments
Brass Bulletin 49 - 1 / 1985
Trichet, Pierre
On Trumpets
From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)
Trumpets served war, ceremony and even medicine before Trichet turned to the mute, a simple device whose purpose extended far beyond changing the sound.
pp. 31–33
Brass Bulletin No 49 · 1985
Trumpet· History· Equipment· Historical instruments