The thirty players in the pit who performed L'Orfeo and Ercole were drawn from several Early Music ensembles: The King's Noyse, The Parley of Instruments, and the Boston Shawm and
Sackbut Ensemble.
Accompanied by regular partners the 18th Century Orchestra and, for the first time, The English Cornett and
Sackbut Ensemble.
A '
Sackbut' was a medieval forerunner of which musical instrument?
The eight singers of I Fagiolini under Robert Hollingworth were accompanied by a continuo of chamber organ plus various sizes of theorbo, as well as two violins and the six-strong English Cornett and
Sackbut Ensemble.
As well as instrumental pieces, using everything from a
sackbut to a baroque cello, there will also be works for choral and solo singers.
Instrumentalists David Miller, William Lyons, Nicholas Perry, Paul Bevan and Sam Goble will perform on an array of instruments including cornets, flute, guitars, lute, recorders,
sackbut, shawms, slide trumpet, trumpet and viheula.
The opening concert of the Oregon Bach Collegium's 2012-13 season presents Ensemble Primo Seicento - with music for cornetto, violin,
sackbut, dulcian, voices and organ - at 3 p.m.
The
sackbut was an early form of which modern musical instrument?
These books include Reynold Weidenaar's Magic Music from the Telharmonium (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995), Albert Glinsky's Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), and Gayle Young's biography of Hugh Le Caine, The
Sackbut Blues (Ottawa: National Museum of Science and Technology, 1989).
And you will be able to impress your friends with your new knowledge of musical instruments such as the vielle, the rebec, the rauschpfeiff, the crumhorn, the tabor, and the
sackbut. But you already knew all about the
sackbut.
Church music at the time, Pond explained to me, was played by a band on instruments like the
sackbut (something like a double-slide trombone), serpent (a bass woodwind), oatboy (oboe), single string viol, and shawm (a horn or cornet).
Everything but a pipe organ, which has the obsolete status of a
sackbut, timbrel or lyre to those leading and participating in "making a joyful noise."
