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Pierre Trichet

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Brass Bulletin 45 - 1 / 1984

On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet

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

On the Cornett and Serpent

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

On hunting horns and other similar instruments

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

On the Crumhorn

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

On Trumpets

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

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