Modern Revival Of The Cornett

Kucera states, “Song and music at all times used to accompany man from the cradle to the grave and were a necessary accompaniment of all important family events.” Instruments of note include bagpipes, violin, clarinet, brass instruments, and accordions. According to Barkan, “Between 1899-1910… Musicians and actors made up an unusually high percentage (37 percent) of Czech professionals.” Local bands, individuals, and outside traveling artists contributed to the popularity of Czech music within Nebraska and the Great Plains as a whole.

Little Louis enjoyed all kinds of music, but he loved the music played by the brass bands most of all. Sometimes after a parade, Joe "king" Oliver, the best cornet player in New Orleans, would let Louis carry his cornet case. Little Louis wanted to make music too. He wanted to play a cornet just like King Oliver.

If you were to go back to the 15th century, it would be easy to recognize the predecessor of the trombone. Previously the sackbut, this Italian instrument was originally intended to accompany a church organ, so it didn’t have music written specifically for it. This fifty hour process involves lots of shaping and torching in order to get a beautiful outcome with a powerful sound.

Like any stringed instrument the player must be able to easily adjust the height of the strings, tune their instrument for pitch, and know how to check and adjust the pegs. They must also know how to change the bridge of the instrument and what the effects of changing the bridge will have on the music quality and tone.

Trumpets have had a great deal of uses throughout

The history of the American brass band is a subtle yet interesting one. Made up of cornets and saxhorns during the 1850’s the all brass band grew to a whole new level of popularity and has become a prominent feature of the brass bands of today. Leading with E flat horns is a prominent extraordinary feature of the early American brass bands. Creating a homogeneous mellow sound by mixing the timbres of these different instruments is one of the most if not the most important characteristics of the early American brass band. The changing times and the creations of different types of sound made many of the instrument in the band become obsolete which also played a huge part in the how much of the literature that can be performed in today’s traditional

instruments and way they have played them has changed alot since it was created in

Eventually the Trumpet would catch wind with the Jazz community and be an instrument staple within bands. In the early days of jazz, the trumpet and cornet was played in marches in New Orleans because of its volume and easiness to carry across the streets, which made it naturally a lead in marches. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, the trumpet would become very popular and a main instrument within the jazz community. Trumpeters usually set up riffs and set up a soloist while playing in bands.

Jack Teagarden was an American jazz trombonist and singer (“Jack Teagarden” 1). Many people around the world have come and watched him perform. He was one of the earliest white bluesman (“Jack Teagarden” 1). He came from a jazz-playing family and was mainly self-taught (“Jack Teagarden” 1). He played in several jazz groups across America’s Southwest (“Jack Teagarden” 1). Teagarden was one of the great horn players of the 20th century (“Jack Teagarden” 1).

Zink or Cornett also known as have different varieties such as the Mute Cornett. The Mute Cornett was straight, tapered one-piece instrument, which was tuned on a lathe. What made the Mute Cornett different form other others with the mouthpiece. A tiny conical recess was cut into the top to replace the detachable. There are hole in the body for fingering which was similar to recorders. The Mute Cornett was ideal in consorts with records, lutes, and viols because of the exquisitely soft sound.

During the time of “Golden Age” which is known as Baroque period the flute was seen as a much successful instrument rather than the recorder when it came to keeping the tune of melodies due to its octave range consisting of two to three, however, the flute had to be modified greatly in order to keep up with difficult music being composed (Toff, 1996). The flute consisted of six holes that were spaced out along the flute body with three holes each in groups of two, which were designed to make it adequate for musician to be able to reach keys rather than acoustic specifications (Toff, 1996). However, the spacing of the two groups did make it difficult for flutist who struggled to produce the F# which appeared in semitone flat. It wasn’t until

According to Edward Tarr in his book titled, “The Trumpet,” he explains that the use of an instrument called a “trumpa” was used and was locally referred to as a “tubae.” “As Richard was pausing in Sicily before setting out for Palestine, a new kind of instrument – the trumpa – was demonstrated to him. Roger of Wendover (d. 1236) wrote about ‘tubae called the trumpae’. This instrument was mentioned for the first time around the year 1180 in

The pipa is a lute-type chordophone. It is often described as a pear-shaped plucked lute. In the Han dynasty, the pipa was known to have four strings and 12 frets. The modern pipa commonly has 4 strings and 4 frets, played vertically with finger chips. The construction and playing methods differ depending on the many dynasties of China; some played the pipa horizontally with a plectrum or plucked. There were two types of pipa that were introduced during the Han dynasty (approximately 202 – 220 C.E), one had a straight neck and the other had a bent-neck (Lau, 2008, 51). It is uncertain where the pipa originated from; one source claims that the pipa was imported into China from Central Asia and Northern India in the mist of many “barbarian instruments”

The hardingfele also know as a hardanger fiddle is a unique and historic instrument traditionally from Norway. This instrument with its rich history is quite possibly a gem in the string family that is normally overlooked. Even though many people have never heard of a hardingfele it is commonly considered the national instrument of Norway! In this paper I hope to show you a brief history of the hardingfele and then a look at how the hardingfele is still used today.

In modern times, xylophones are used in ensembles around the world. A modern xylophone has its wooden bars, or keys, arranged like the keys of the piano and attached to the bottom of the wooden bars are metal tubes called resonators, where the sound vibrates. The resonators gives the xylophone its bright, bell-like sound (“Percussion Instruments”, 2015). It is considered to have a soprano pitch due to its shrill sound. In orchestras, xylophones are played with four mallets instead of the traditional two mallet method (Cherrett, 2011). They are also played using mallets of other materials rather than the traditional wooden hammers. Xylophones can be played with mallets of different hardnesses