His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts

Excerpt from a live concert in Greenwich, London. check out www.hmsc.co.uk

Category:

Music

Tags:

• sackbut
• trombone
• cornett
• baroque

[labarbarossa]

The one in London! (as opposed to the village in New York!)

[Tyranosauruxrex]

Awful ! They didn't play all the sonata!

[labarbarossa]

Well, you can always buy the CD from our website! - it's on the disc 'Floating City' :-)

[labarbarossa]

actually, we did - we just didn't put it all on the video clip! :-)

[Biber0315]

Where's the rest of the piece?

[labarbarossa]

it's on our CD Floating City - available from the groups website! :-)

[tochterlovegod]

A very wonderful performance :) I would like to know is there any music composition software have the sound of Cornett? I'm going to make this instrument - Cornett into my work but it my software don't have ...Is anyone know any information about the software for Cornett?

[LLJtbone]

@rustydog1236 PDQ Bach, that would be halirious!

[Saanaitonoai]

@goldsmithexile

Yes, it was basically a change in the technology. Whether it's an improvement or not is up to each one of us personally to decide, though - for example the sound of a baroque clarino is softer and gentler than a modern trumpet. The improvement of pitch, however, I would presume is mostly a result of the progress of technology. Even today, some instruments are harder to keep in tune than others (like the english horn) and I'm sure technology will be working on that...

[goldsmithexile]

@Saanaitonoai

So why did this change happen? was it due to technology improving? What made people decide rough "intonation" was bad or needed some sort of precision and improvement?

With modern drums, now because of digital technology, sequencers, click tracks etc any rhythm that is not complying to that tight and precise system is written off as bad time keeping.....!!

[Saanaitonoai]

@goldsmithexile

Yes.

[goldsmithexile]

@Saanaitonoai

What does intonation mean, is it how accurately in tune the notes are played?

[TheHb0mb3r]

It would be a great honor to be a "Sagbutt"

[rustydog1236]

I wonder if Benny Hill ever went to a Sackbutt concert?

[pjdonagh]

@khbgkh and if you don't, you use modern instruments....obvious I know but for somebody brought up on the Harty arrangement of Handel/Water Music and still enjoying it I like to have a choice!!

[starvinghysterical]

love it. played cornetto and alto sackbut in an early music group in college and wish there were more (read: any) opportunities to play them. And Saanaitonoai, amen to that about the intonation being hard on those instruments. It's kind of like blowing into a PVC pipe; experimenting with alternate fingerings helps, but in my experience it's just a matter of "lipping it" into tune.