What is a cornetto?
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2019
- Matthew Manchester explains the cornetto, a musical instrument that flourished from the medieval period to the baroque. The cornetto is the platypus of the music world, with finger-holes like a recorder but a mouthpiece like a trumpet. The instrument represented life, death, and eternity when it was played in the cathedrals and palaces of Europe.
0:02 What is a cornetto?
1:30 How is a cornetto made?
2:28 How do you play the cornetto?
4:16 Why did the cornetto disappear?
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Very interesting. As a string player you cracked me up with, "violinists didn't need to breathe". Always felt that way myself.
I was researching the cornetto because I saw my concert band conductor show it at the front, this is my concert band conductor
This shall be added to the collection
Thanks so much for this video, very interesting and helpful. As a translator (Italian to English mostly) I often translate the booklets that accompany CDs, and regularly have to find out more about the particular sound of a given instrument to be able to render the author's full meaning in English. I really enjoyed your introduction to the cornetto! Grazie davvero!
Since the "o" suffix on cornetto refers to it being a small cornett, the reference in this video to a "tenor cornetto" is something of an oxymoron. It is usually called a "tenor cornett".
As for the cornetto not falling into modern instrument classifications as a brass instrument, this is more than debatable. The most common modern organological instrument classification systems place any cup-mouthpiece (sound produced by the vibration of the player's lips) instrument as "brass instruments", regardless of the system used to control air column length (i.e. holes, slides, valves) or the material the instrument is made from.
Wow, thank you. Never heard of this beautiful instrument until this.
Beautiful, warm sounding instrument ❤. I wish the video was longer, such a wonderful presentation 😊
thank you for your video, I love the cornetto, Bruce Dickey playing Josquin des Prez is a MUST..
What a Magnificent And Regal Instrument! I bought one a few years ago...but it seemed too hard to play! Thanks Mate For your VIDEO! Your tip of blowing it slightly to the side has helped me make a few decent notes! Cheers!
A beautiful introduction to the instrument. Thank you!
What a joy to listen and to watch! Thank you!!!
It can be sounded with an oboe reed, so a Baroque oboe also has a conical inner tube.
Gorgeous!
To be exact, the medical snake is the Aesculapian, which recently set up home in the nearest sizeable park th London's Harley Street. It's non-poisonous.
Nice demonstration Matthew, thankyou. Very clear and enjoyable to follow. Aaron (2 below) must be a talented chap, wow! I never found it easy myself and can't say that I have met anybody else in my 46 years in the profession who finds it easy either. Indeed I once had a student who was unable to produce a single sound from it other than that of a rushing mighty wind! Keep up the good work. J
I felt Aaron was commenting with his tongue firmly placed in cheek. 😉
I really enjoy the sound of the cornetto, it sounds ethereal yet powerful. But what is the range of the cornetto family? Thanks for sharing this video!
Piccolo ("cornettino"): C4 to D6 (sometimes pushed up to F6 or G6).
Soprano: G3 to D6.
Alto and "mute": F3 to C6.
Tenor: D3 (or C3, depending on the model) to G5.
There wasn't a bass (or was extremely rare: just three specimens, tuned one octave below the soprano, has arrived to us, and it doesn't seem to have ever been called for by composers), that role was taken by the serpent family, albeit trombones actually were the most common complement to the cornett family: typical brass ensembles back between 16th and 17th Century were usually composed of soprano and tenor cornett and tenor and bass trombone, or soprano cornett and alto, tenor and bass trombones.
@@TenorCantusFirmus Isnt the bass the serpent?
@@mogalelebethe6082 It usually is considered as a separate family of instruments.
very interesting!
Matt Manchester🔥
It would blend even better with voices if the vocalist you're accompanying isn't using modern-style wide, constant vibrato.
Excellent introduction to this instrument! Questions: Why is the cornetto curved? Is the modern brass cornet closest in range to the wooden cornetto? If so, how do the two instruments compare for efficiency i.e. - blown air required for a given volume, as would be important in a large group like an orchestra?
The cornetto and the modern brass cornet have pretty much nothing in common except the name. Comparing their "efficiency" doesn't make much sense, since they're used in completely different music and different contexts, and alongside different instruments. But the cornetto uses a lot less air than modern brass instruments. It's really not an instrument you want to approach with force, rather with extreme delicacy
@@LeTromboniste0 So nothing for the brassband world with their hysterical loud dynamics, unless that has changed since I played in one.
Easiest instrument to learn ever. Practically plays itself.
😄 But so worth the effort! 🥰
My question is: How and where I could acquire a similar instrument?
The early music shop in Bradford
A gentleman named Ricardo Simian creates and takes orders for 3D printed cornetti on his website. He also makes a slightly more "developed" version of the instrument, which he calls the "Perfetto," if that kind of thing interests you.
@@AVENGERxerozero Thanks!
@@mazadan Thanks!
@@mazadan One of my favourite shops and only about ten miles from my house.
I Love this instrument!. Is it hard blown?. I play the Cowhorn which has a Long tradition here in Sweden. The mouthpiece of my Horn is small like the mouthpiece of a Cornetto. I will get this instrument for shure. Its lovely
Hej Robin, visst är det ett härligt instrument?!
Var bor du någonstans? Om någorlunda i närheten av Uppsala så skulle du nog kunna prova på någon av mina zinkor/sinkor [stavningen varierar :)] någon gång. Annars finns det zinkenister, även profs, på olika håll i landet, eller du skulle kunna komma till någon workshop/renässansmusikvecka med blåslärare. Det finns exempelvis en i Danmark nästa vecka (för sent för anmälan till i år tyvärr) och jag organiserar en i Tyskland kring påsk.
It's not trivial to play by any means... The small mouthpiece creates localized stress, which makes it easy to exhaust oneself if using suboptimal technique - easier than on a larger mouthpiece like a trombone, in my thinking. But I think having some background in brass instruments and/or other winds helps a lot (I started playing it in good earnest after recorder and trumpet lessons, for example). As does taking lessons with a good teacher - which is possible online nowadays.
It's a long time since I tried out a friend's "kohorn" so my memory is a bit blurry, but I did find it quite easy to cross over (at least for generating notes, which is all I tried) so I would indeed say that you are on a good way with that experience! A similarity beyond the small mouthpiece is that the instrument itself does not give one well-defined pitch for one fingering (rather something within a third or so) so that one must listen and fine-adjust a lot with one's lips and diaphragm. Still less wiggle room than on the kohorn if I remember that correctly, there you HAVE to make adjustments with the one hand in the "bell", don't you?
@@SebastianSchleussner Hej Sebastian! Jag bor i Upplands Bro en bit norr om Stockholm med närhet till Uppsala. Är egentligen Pianospelare i grund och botten som är relativt nybörjare inom Trumpetinstrument. Jag tycker det vore jätteroligt att träffas och testspela Zinka. Vad är din uppfattning om Resin Zinkorna utav Monk? Är de bra som övningsinstrument?
Mitt Horn har ett omfång på ungefär 10 toner men några fler går säkert att få fram med bättre ambis så fem toner med de tre hålen och med stoppteknik i olika lägen ner till en kvint 🙂
Hvordan stemmer den?Kan man intonere mens man spiller?
It's posible to buy one of these in this Days?
Who makes the best cornettos ? Are there plans online ?
It's surely a matter of taste. I am quite happy with my 16 years old Fanciullacci for instance, but he has made major changes - improvements according to pro players I have talked to - in the time since.
Thank you! Do you think is feasible to put an EMBOUCHURE (like the oboe has) on a cornetto?
"like the oboe has" - I think that you mean a double reed?
Well, you CAN take a reed from an oboe or so and somehow put it on the cornetto where the mouthpiece usually goes, and then produce some notes on the instrument, just for fun. I did fool around like that with a cornetto once, and the other way around with a trumpet mouthpiece on an oboe or so. But the instrument and mouthpiece are not adjusted to each other AT ALL, so don't expect to get a clear sound nor any in-tune scale out of it! (Or not with a ton of fiddling, which basically amounts to (re)inventing an instrument.)
If you are looking for playing a 16th-century instrument like the cornetto, but with a reed, you are better served to look for the proper reed instruments of the time: shawm/pommer (oboe ancestors) or dulcian (family of bassoon ancestors).
@@SebastianSchleussner
Thank you!
Useful indeed.
No boring bits
It's really a fairy tale instrument. The tuning is not perfect but it's confusing that I can't even say what happens. It sounds not really middle eastern or Indian. It could be that same note is not always in the same amount too high or too low?? It goes a little bit in the direction of a soprano sax in this aspect ??? (never played one)
Great video though for normal people "slightly off-center" is just on-center
and biceversa... Can you make an oboe sound with the embouchure of a cornet... There are cornets with keys, to facilitate all the keys and NOT only those with one or two accidentals in the key signature....
I have cornetto ice cream (the normal one)
Still want a cornetto ice cream still
In Italy cornetto ice cream has been legendary as the musical instrument for 2 generations of Italian boys and girls