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The Sound of Trumpets (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Improvements to instrument design and metal making in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance led to an increased usefulness of the trumpet as a musical instrument. The natural trumpets of this era consisted of a single coiled tube without valves and therefore could only produce the notes of a single overtone series. Changing keys required the player to change crooks of the instrument. [10] The development of the upper, " clarino" register by specialist trumpeters—notably Cesare Bendinelli—would lend itself well to the Baroque era, also known as the "Golden Age of the natural trumpet." During this period, a vast body of music was written for virtuoso trumpeters. The art was revived in the mid-20th century and natural trumpet playing is again a thriving art around the world. Many modern players in Germany and the UK who perform Baroque music use a version of the natural trumpet fitted with three or four vent holes to aid in correcting out-of-tune notes in the harmonic series. [13] Split tone: Trumpeters can produce more than one tone simultaneously by vibrating the two lips at different speeds. The interval produced is usually an octave or a fifth. The C Trumpet, you guessed it, plays in the key of C which means that when you play a C note, the instrument does not transpose it, and you hear a straight concert pitched C.

So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.The decision of whether to use a D trumpet or a piccolo trumpet is up to the stylistic preference of the player, the occasion, the ensemble and the particular piece.

This novel, the final part of what we might call the "Titmuss trilogy" (after its main driving force, the Thatcherite Leslie Titmuss), was first published in 1998, just after the triumph of Teflon Tony. Set a couple of years before then, on the surface the book is rather quiet, following a shiny happy Labour candidate, Terry Flitton, as he attempts to wrest a true blue country constituency from his Conservative opponent. Ordinarily, he wouldn't have much of a chance – even despite the fact that the previous Tory incumbent was found mysteriously dead and naked in his swimming pool – and Mortimer chronicles Flitton's mishaps with gentle irony. He falls in love with a socialist bookshop owner; out riding with her he loses control of his horse, ends up following a hunt and is photographed at the kill – not the sort of thing that a New Labourite ought to be seen doing. Mortimer's writing is fluid and vivid, but one begins to wonder why it's being republished as a classic. Glissando: Trumpeters can slide between notes by depressing the valves halfway and changing the lip tension. Modern repertoire makes extensive use of this technique. So the people shouted, and the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. When most people think of a trumpet, it’s most likely that the Bb Trumpet is the one that comes to mind. The whole range of a bass trumpet is much lower than a normal trumpet. It extends from E1 to C5. The highest note on a bass trumpet is one octave below a Bb trumpet.The bass trumpet is at the same pitch as a trombone and is usually played by a trombone player, [4] although its music is written in treble clef. Most bass trumpets are pitched in either C or B ♭. The C bass trumpet sounds an octave lower than written, and the B ♭ bass sounds a major ninth (B ♭) lower, making them both transposing instruments. Before they were used for music, trumpets had other purposes. They were played in religious ceremonies and the military. Their sonorous tone could project messages across large distances, which was extremely useful.

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