In the Family
The shortest member of the trumpet family.
What is the piccolo trumpet?
The first player that is known to have learned to play a type of chromatic trumpet in the 1800s.
Who is Anton Weidinger?
The Italian term for "more."
What is Più?
One of Bach's most difficult works for trumpet, believed to be played by his court trumpeter in Köthen, Johann Ludwig Schreiber.
What is the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2?
The earliest known use of mutes for a piece of literature was for this composer's opera Orfeo in 1607.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
The lowest member in the trumpet family.
What is the bass trumpet?
This player is often called Dizzy Gillespie with an extra octave.
Who is Jon Faddis?
The Italian term for "less."
What is meno?
What is the highest note (concert pitch) in the F.J. Haydn trumpet concerto?
What is a high D-flat (concert)?
Probably the most famous type of mute, often made of many different types of materials such as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, and even cardboard.
What is the straight mute?
These two members of the trumpet family have a mellower sound due to their shape.
What is the cornet and the flugelhorn?
This Russian-Isreali trumpeter has been called the Paganini of the trumpet and recorded many of the major trumpet works by the age of 15.
Who is Sergei Nakariakov?
The Italian term for "lightly." Trumpeters seem to have trouble with this type of articulation.
What is leggiero?
The only evidence for the existence of a trumpet concerto by this composer comes from his father in 1768.
Who is Mozart?
The most popular type of adjustable cup mute on the market today.
What is the Denis Wick Cup Mute?
The oldest known members of the trumpet family come from this Egyptian ruler's tomb from 1500 B.C.
Who is King Tut?
This British trumpet star won the Gramophone's artist of the year in 2013 and very recently premiered Wynton Marsalis's Concerto for Trumpet with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Who is Allison Balsom?
What is dolce?
Dedicated to the Trumpeter Ludovic Vaillant, soloist at the French Radio Symphony Orchestra, this Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra was premiered in Paris in 1949.
What is the Henri Tomasi Trumpet Concerto?
The original name for the Harmon mute.
What is the wa-wa?
The type of trumpet that was believed to blow down the walls of Jericho (Book of Joshua, Bible).
What is the shofar?
This American trumpeter is the only musician to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, both as a vocalist and an instrumentalist.
Who is Herb Albert?
The music term for exact or in strict time.
What is guisto?
This Trumpet Sonata Op. 1 was written by this British composer when he turned 21. This difficult work for both the trumpet and the piano was written for the D Trumpet.
Who is Peter Maxwell Davies?
Another name for a practice mute.
What is the whispa mute?