--From: Ken Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--Very interesting. I had come across trumpet specialisation, but had
--assumed that it applied to 15th and 16th centuries only. Do you know
--how many trumpet bands survived into the 17th C.? and when the last
--disbanded?
Ken,
Valentini, who worked at the Imperial Court in Vienna (he succeeded Priuli in 1626), wrote trumpet parts for the usually unwritten lower trumpets, even providing rhythmic patterns to accompany voices in liturgical music [See Stephen Saunders, Cross, Sword and Lyre, Clarendon, 1995]. Ed Tarr [The Trumpet, London, 1988] also mentions the Charamela real of the Portuguese king in Lisbon in 1722 (although there is confusion over which king) and various German courts as late as 1810, including a reference to a work for five trumpets, timpani and two chalumeaux copied and adapted by Mozart as an exercise, although this uses trumpets in different keys.
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