Final Exam

Question 1

Serpent

Answer 1

Predecessor of the Tuba, low register instrument

Question 2

Posaune

Answer 2

German for trombone

Question 3

Jägertrumpet/jägerhorn

Answer 3

“Hunting,” coiled instrument

Question 4

Shofar

Answer 4

Jewish ceremony, Ram’s horn

Question 5

Sackbut

Answer 5

Predecessor to trombone

Question 6

Zugtrompete

Answer 6

German, slide trumpet (none survived)

Question 7

Waldhorn

Answer 7

“Forest horn”, natural horn

Question 8

Bombardon

Answer 8

Name for early tuba

Question 9

Kameradenschaft

Answer 9

Trumpet guild of the baroque era

Question 10

Consort

Answer 10

Family of instruments

Question 11

Tromba da tirarsi

Answer 11

Italian for slide trumpet

Question 12

Wait

Answer 12

English equivalent to stadtpfeifer, policemen or firemen with instruments

Question 13

Syntagma Musicum II - M. Praetorius (1618-1619)

Answer 13

Important book because it showed what instruments of the 1600s looked like with amazingly detailed pictures.

Question 14

G. Gabrielli - Sacrae Symphonie (Sonata pian’ e forte) (1597)

Answer 14

First well-known use of dynamics and specific instrumentation.

Question 15

John Adson - Courtly Masquing Ayres (1611)

Answer 15

A wait in England; some of the first pieces written solely for brass

Question 16

Modo per impare a sonore di tromba- G. Fantini (1638)

Answer 16

Treatise on how to make a sound on the trumpet

Question 17

Wagner Tuba

Answer 17

Wagner, Bruckner, Stravinsky, Holst all wrote parts in

Range between trombone and French Horn

Question 18

Keyed trumpet

Answer 18

Used by Weidinger; Haydn and Hummel wrote concertos for it.

Question 19

J. Hampel- ca. 1750

Answer 19

Credited with development of hand horn technique.

Question 20

Stadtpfeifer

Answer 20

German term, city trumpeter

Often played on the walls