A cornet is a brass musical instrument, similar to a trumpet, but equipped with pistons rather than valves. It was created in France in the 30s.
Cornet: structural features of a musical instrument Cornet: structural features of a musical instrument
At the top of the cornet there are buttons, presented in the form of a piston mechanism. They are located at the same height as the mouthpiece, which, in turn, is placed on the main pipe and is needed to reproduce sound. At the bottom of the case there are keys necessary for removing condensate. There is also a bell designed for the “exit” of sounds.
The length of the musical instrument is up to 60 centimeters, so the cornet is bought in cases where there is a need for frequent travel. The shiny case made of copper adds to its presentability. The cornet successfully stands out among other wind instruments in the orchestra.
The cornet has a wide tonal range, including up to three octaves. This feature allows the instrument to reproduce not only classical works, but also more complex ones. The main advantage of the clarinet is its ability to play music that requires fluency. The softness of the timbre is expressed in the first octave. In the lower register, the sound of the instrument becomes somewhat gloomy.
Cornet: what models can you buy at an affordable price in Moscow? Cornet: what models can you buy at an affordable price in Moscow?
Among the budget models of cornets, which can be purchased in Moscow stores at an affordable price, the following are in highest demand:
1 Maxtone TCC53L. The model was released under a famous Chinese brand. The instrument stands out for its high build quality, beautiful clear sound, and reliable mechanics. This model of cornet is suitable for beginning musicians because it can be purchased at an affordable price. The diameter of the bell is 121 mm, the mouthpiece is 11.8 mm.
2 Odyssey OCR200. The cornet is of good quality, but has a low cost. This model, like the previous one, is suitable for beginners, however, professionals also use it with pleasure. The bell diameter reaches 119 mm, the scale length is 11.68 mm. The instrument has 3 valves.
The cornet is a musical instrument made of copper, part of a brass band. This is a direct descendant of the post horn. The latter has a rich history. The Jewish priests blew into it so that the walls of Jericho would fall.
Story
The modern cornet trumpet is made of copper, while its predecessors were made of wood. The German name for a musical instrument is zinc. In the 15th-17th centuries, such a curiosity was very common in Europe. The cornet is a musical instrument, without which many classical works cannot be performed. He was an obligatory participant in city festivals of the Renaissance. Solos on this instrument were common in Italy in the 16th century. The names of famous virtuosos of that era have survived to this day - Claudio Monteverdi and Giovanni Bossano.
Position and modernity
The cornet is a musical instrument that gradually began to lose ground in the 17th century, after the spread of violin playing. It retained its dominant position for the longest time in the northern part of Europe. There, the last solo works dated back to the eighteenth century. The cornet is a musical instrument that completely lost its relevance in the 19th century. Nowadays it is used in the performance of ancient folk music. Later, more modern ones appeared. In particular, the cornet-a-piston was created in 1830 in Paris. Sigismund Stölzel is considered his father-inventor. This tool is equipped with a pair of valves.
Heyday
In 1869, keyboard and wind instruments, in particular the updated cornet, became widespread, and active learning to play them began. Special courses began their work at the Paris Conservatory. Jean Baptiste Arban stood at the origins of this process. We are talking about the first professor, cornetist and virtuoso of his craft. At the end of the 19th century, the peak of popularity of this instrument came. At this time he came to the Russian Empire.
Nikolai Pavlovich is the first Russian Tsar who played simultaneously various types of wind instruments known at that time. He handled this instrument excellently, both with its outdated design and with its modern one. Contemporaries mentioned the tsar's outstanding abilities in the field of music. He even composed his own works, usually military marches. The king demonstrated his achievements in chamber concerts. This was the custom in his time. Concerts were held in the halls of the Winter Palace. As a rule, there were no extra people on them. The tsar did not have the time and opportunity to regularly practice music, for this reason he obliged the author of the anthem, A.F. Lvov, to come for a rehearsal on the eve of the performance. Especially for Nikolai Pavlovich, his teacher composed a part for the cornet.
The musical instrument that interests us is often mentioned in the literature. In particular, in the works “Gloomy Morning” by A. Tolstoy, “Sakhalin Island” by A. Chekhov, “Spectators” by M. Gorky. The secret of this success was the superiority of this instrument over other brass instruments when performing music that required greater fluency. The cornet is distinguished by colossal technical agility, as well as an expressive and bright sound. This instrument allows you to “depict” the melody of a piece for the listener.
Echo cornet
The flugelhorn trumpet took part in wars and was a guest at the courts of monarchs. The cornet, in turn, takes its origins from the horns of postmen and hunters. Using these instruments, special signals were given. Music connoisseurs and professionals often note that the cornet is not so much a virtuoso-sounding trumpet as a small, gentle horn.
A few words should be said about another closely related instrument called the echo cornet. It gained popularity in England during the reign of Queen Victoria. In addition, this instrument was distributed in America. Its unusualness lies in the presence of two bells, and not one. This instrument creates the illusion of a specially muffled sound. This effect occurs when playing while switching bells. The second valve helps him in this. This feature allows you to create a unique echo effect. Special works were created for this instrument, fully revealing the beauty of its sound.
Cornet (musical instrument)In the 20th century, improvements in trumpet design and the skill of trumpet players virtually eliminated the problem of fluency and timbre, and cornets disappeared from the orchestra. Nowadays, orchestral parts of cornets are performed, as a rule, on trumpets, although sometimes an original instrument is used.
Currently, the cornet, in addition to the brass band, is used as a teaching instrument and occasionally as a soloist.
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Excerpt characterizing the Cornet (musical instrument)
– It’s already been a week since the campaign began, and you have failed to defend Vilna. You are cut in two and driven out of the Polish provinces. Your army is grumbling...“On the contrary, Your Majesty,” said Balashev, who barely had time to remember what was said to him and had difficulty following this fireworks of words, “the troops are burning with desire...
“I know everything,” Napoleon interrupted him, “I know everything, and I know the number of your battalions as accurately as mine.” You don’t have two hundred thousand troops, but I have three times that much. “I give you my word of honor,” said Napoleon, forgetting that his word of honor could not have any meaning, “I give you ma parole d"honneur que j"ai cinq cent trente mille hommes de ce cote de la Vistule. [on my word of honor that I have five hundred and thirty thousand people on this side of the Vistula.] The Turks are no help to you: they are no good and have proven this by making peace with you. The Swedes are destined to be ruled by crazy kings. Their king was mad; they changed him and took another - Bernadotte, who immediately went crazy, because a crazy person only being a Swede can enter into alliances with Russia. - Napoleon grinned viciously and again brought the snuffbox to his nose.
To each of Napoleon’s phrases, Balashev wanted and had something to object to; He constantly made the movement of a man who wanted to say something, but Napoleon interrupted him. For example, about the madness of the Swedes, Balashev wanted to say that Sweden is an island when Russia is for it; but Napoleon shouted angrily to drown out his voice. Napoleon was in that state of irritation in which you need to talk, talk and talk, only in order to prove to yourself that you are right. It became difficult for Balashev: he, as an ambassador, was afraid of losing his dignity and felt the need to object; but, as a person, he shrank morally before forgetting the causeless anger in which Napoleon, obviously, was. He knew that all the words now spoken by Napoleon did not matter, that he himself, when he came to his senses, would be ashamed of them. Balashev stood with his eyes downcast, looking at Napoleon’s moving thick legs, and tried to avoid his gaze.
- What do these allies of yours mean to me? - said Napoleon. – My allies are the Poles: there are eighty thousand of them, they fight like lions. And there will be two hundred thousand of them.
And, probably even more indignant that, having said this, he told an obvious lie and that Balashev stood silently in front of him in the same pose submissive to his fate, he turned sharply back, walked up to Balashev’s very face and, making energetic and quick gestures with his white hands, he almost shouted:
“Know that if you shake Prussia against me, know that I will erase it from the map of Europe,” he said with a pale face distorted with anger, striking the other with an energetic gesture of one small hand. - Yes, I will throw you beyond the Dvina, beyond the Dnieper and will restore against you that barrier that Europe was criminal and blind in allowing to be destroyed. Yes, that’s what will happen to you, that’s what you won by moving away from me,” he said and silently walked around the room several times, trembling his thick shoulders. He put a snuff box in his vest pocket, took it out again, put it to his nose several times and stopped in front of Balashev. He paused, looked mockingly straight into Balashev’s eyes and said in a quiet voice: “Et cependant quel beau regne aurait pu avoir votre maitre!”
Balashev, feeling the need to object, said that from the Russian side things were not presented in such a gloomy way. Napoleon was silent, continuing to look at him mockingly and, obviously, not listening to him. Balashev said that in Russia they expect all the best from the war. Napoleon condescendingly nodded his head, as if saying: “I know, it’s your duty to say so, but you yourself don’t believe in it, you’re convinced by me.”
With the advent of the valve mechanism, the closest “relative” of the pipe got its start - musical instrument cornet. It is also called a cornet-a-piston to distinguish it from another instrument, which was also called a cornet (or zinc), was a wooden instrument and was used in earlier eras (By the 19th century it had completely fallen out of use).
The invention of the cornet-a-piston is attributed to Sigismund Stölzel, whose instrument was shown in Paris in 1830 and had 2 valves.
The cornet was a great success among both musicians and listeners. A great passion for the cornet began.
Its appearance is due to the fact that the chromatic trumpets of that time had a heavy, inflexible sound. The cornet, on the other hand, had a greater number of barrel turns than the trumpet and sounded softer. Another advantage was that the first chromatic trumpets were in F tunings, and cornets in B and A, which are more convenient for playing.
The 19th century is the time when the cornet began to be actively introduced into the scores of many composers. Everyone knows the cornet solo in the “Neapolitan Dance” from Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake”.
2 cornets were most often combined into one group with 2 trumpets playing in the lower register.
The cornet is also called a “cornet-a-piston.” This French name means an instrument with valves or pistons.
Solo works for the instrument were written mainly by the cornetists themselves: G.L. Clark, J.B. Arban, W. Brandt, E. Trognier, V. Wurm and others.
Nowadays the cornet is almost never used.
Echo cornet
This unusual instrument was popular in America and England during the era of Queen Victoria. Its peculiarity is the presence of 2 bells. The performer, switching with the help of an additional valve to another bell, could create the effect of playing with a mute. Most often to create an echo. The instrument was extremely popular; many works were written specifically for it. Some of them, for example “Alpine Echo,” are performed by foreign trumpeters on this instrument to this day. These cornets were produced in limited editions, mainly by Boosey & Hawkes. Nowadays, the production of such instruments has been established in India, but their quality does not bear any criticism, therefore, when choosing such a cornet, professionals give preference to old instruments.
