English Vocabulary

Mediaeval instrument

Gwendy

User since 2008
Posts: 253

12 Oct. 2011

With a lot of pleasure, i attended to a concert of mediaeval music last sunday, and i discovered the "cornet à bouquin", for me a mix between a trumpet and a saxophone, a funny looking instrument , a kind of a branch curling like a snake, i am not sure of what is it's name in english-american, who knows the exact name ot this ancient musical instrument ?

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Spoiler
User since 2008
Posts: 499
13 Oct. 2011

It's quite simple. Just look up the Wikipedia entry at [b]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornett[/b] and you will re-recognize the picture of it. It looks in fact like a branch curling like a snake. Maybe some eager participants of the 'Hello People' thread, the experts in music can tell you more about it, especially those who attend a lot of classical concerts or play in an orchestra themselves. Well, since it has it's heyday at the end of Middle Ages, or in the Renaissance, it may not be very present in classical concerts, rather in reenactments of mediaeval events, but anyway...
It's quite simple. Just look up the Wikipedia entry at [b]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornett[/b] and you will re-recognize the picture of it. It looks in fact like a branch curling like a snake. Maybe some eager participants of the 'Hello People' thread, the experts in music can tell you more about it, especially those who attend a lot of classical concerts or play in an orchestra themselves. Well, since it has it's heyday at the end of Middle Ages, or in the Renaissance, it may not be very present in classical concerts, rather in reenactments of mediaeval events, but anyway...
Gymglish Support
User since 2010
Posts: 115
18 Oct. 2011

You're right, Prussian: wikipedia can be helpful, because once you're on it, you can change the language to English, and see what it has been translated as!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornett

Obviously, we can't know for sure whether Wikipedia is right, but it is often quite accurate.
You're right, Prussian: wikipedia can be helpful, because once you're on it, you can change the language to English, and see what it has been translated as! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornett Obviously, we can't know for sure whether Wikipedia is right, but it is often quite accurate.

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