The cornet is very similar to the trumpet in looks and playing technique. It is thought to have been invented by the instrument maker Jean-Louis Antoine in the 1820s. Antoine, who worked for the Parisian firm Halary, was one of a number of makers experimenting with the new valve technology that was revolutionizing brass instruments at the time. His ...
The cornet is a looped brass instrument with a wide bore and three valves. Beginning life as a development of the circular looped post horn, it became a valved instrument in France in the late 1820s. It apparently reached Britain in the 1830s, where its bright sound soon displaced the keyed bugle from amateur wind bands. Most often to ...
the army, although orchestral composers did use them to add a whiff of the battlefield. A keyed bugle was patented in 1810, but was shortly replaced by the cornet and the flugelhorn. Cornet Pitched in B-flat, or occasionally in C, the three-valved cornet was invented in 1830 as a variation on the German post horn, and ...
brass bands of the time and were used by the Besses o’ th’ Barn, founded in Manchester around 1815. Styles & Forms | Late Romantic | Classical Instruments | Cornet | Late Romantic | Classical ...
supernatural and entering the orchestra from Beethoven’s time onwards. New brass instruments were also invented, many of which have stayed in brass bands and wind bands ever since. The cornet, the euphonium and saxhorn families, the flugelhorn and tuba all emerged in the 1830s and 1840s, and mass production enabled brass and wind instruments to be produced ...
The cornett of European Renaissance art music is a longer finger-hole horn made of wood. A precursor to the modern brass horns, it should not be confused with the valved – and much later developed – cornet. Construction and Playing Technique The cornett is a long tube, usually around 60 cm (20 in) in length. It is normally curved ...
Not to be confused with the modern valved brass-band cornet, which is a kind of small trumpet, the cornett (with that extra final ‘t’) was made of two carved, lightly curved pieces of European hardwood (such as pear) bound together and wrapped in leather. The instrument is further unusual in that it has an octagonal finish. To the ...
, who formed colliery, factory or town bands. Soon regular brass-band contests were held. To make these fair, a standard instrumentation was agreed upon, comprising one Eb cornet, 10 Bb cornets divided into four parts, three Eb tenor horns, two baritones, two euphoniums, two tenor trombones, bass trombone, two basses in ...
smooth timbre, but also contributes to problems in intonation that can only be overcome by the player’s skill. Its mouthpiece is cup-shaped but much deeper than that of the cornet or trumpet. Like the trumpet and cornet, the flugelhorn is pitched in Bb. It extends down to an e and can reach bb''. The flugelhorn does not have the ...
The flugelhorn (or flügelhorn: Flügel means ‘wing’ in German) is a cornet-like valved brass instrument, a member of the bugle family. It has a conical bore and three valves; in Britain these are invariably piston valves, but German and Austrian ones have rotary valves. The flugelhorn’s ancestor was a type of semicircular hunting horn carried by the hunt-master who ...
although at one point 10 were posited – keyed alternately in Eb and Bb, in the same way as saxophones. The Eb soprano is today seen as the Eb cornet, the Bb contralto has disappeared, the Eb alto is better known today as the tenor horn, the Eb baryton is the modern baritone, the Bb bass ...
Davies (b. 1934) and Judith Weir (b. 1954) wrote for the instrument. It has, though, never taken root as permanent orchestral member. Introduction | Brass Instruments Instruments | Cornet | Brass ...
(1791–1864). Initially, the valve trumpet was pitched in F. The length of this instrument meant that works requiring agility were incredibly demanding technically. Alongside the trumpet had developed the cornet, which was pitched a fourth higher in Bb and was much more able to cope with tricky music. Even so, it wasn’t until the 1850s that the first ...
The most strikingly original and authoritative voice on cornet since Louis Armstrong, Leon ‘Bix’ Beiderbecke set the example for a generation of aspiring white jazz players during the 1920s. His meteoric rise to fame was followed by a dramatic fall from grace that led to his ultimate death from alcoholism at the age of just 28 in 1931. A Self-Taught Genius ...
(Trumpet, cornet, guitar, 1915–76) After Bobby Hackett was praised in Down Beat by Boston critic George Frazier in 1937, he headed to New York and settled into a group of neo-traditional players loosely associated with Eddie Condon. Although a lifelong fan of Louis Armstrong, Hackett’s gentle, fluid lyricism made him a more logical descendent of ...
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