The Sound of Trumpets (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Campos, Frank Gabriel (2005). Trumpet technique. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516692-2. Hearing these words made the brothers and sisters extremely excited. Brother Chen emotionally said, “These words are so authoritative and they are not something that can be spoken by an ordinary person. It turns out that ‘ trumpet’ refers to God’s word. In the last days God expresses the truth to cleanse our corruption, and so hearing God’s words in the last days means hearing the sound of the trumpet. We should earnestly seek and investigate.” So the people shouted [the battle cry], and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout and the wall [of Jericho] fell down, so that the sons of Israel went up into the city, every man straight ahead [climbing over the rubble], and they overthrew the city. So the priests blew the trumpets. As soon as the people heard it, they gave a loud shout, and the walls collapsed. Then all the army went straight up the hill into the city and captured it.

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For this reason, C trumpets are often played for solo pieces where an instrument in a different key would require extra fingering and tuning work. Keith Anderson, liner notes for Naxos CD 8.550243, Famous Trumpet Concertos, "Haydn's concerto, written for Weidinger in 1796, must have . At the first performance of the new concerto in Vienna in 1800 a trumpet melody was heard in a lower register than had hitherto been practicable." The rams' horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it. The melody-dominated homophony of the classical and romantic periods relegated the trumpet to a secondary role by most major composers owing to the limitations of the natural trumpet. Berlioz wrote in 1844:

If you want a more muffled, quieter sound, you can use a straight mute made out of cardboard. For a muted sound that is still bright with a “buzz,” use a metal straight mute. In an orchestra, concert band, or jazz ensemble, trumpets might need to blend in with the rest of the ensemble. Some compositions have muted sections to change the tone or volume of a trumpet section.The C trumpet made its debut in France right around the same time as the Bb trumpet as part of the movement to create a brassier sound than the cornet without the bulk of the F and G trumpets.