ABSTRACT
Recordings offer a historical perspecive of brass music from the pre-Baroque period to the present. Early music on contemporary musical instruments include recordings featuring clarion trumpet, slide trumpet, the 16th-and 17th-century cornetto (cornett), sackbut, serpent, and other instruments of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. The band and orchestral repertoire presents solo and ensemble parts for trumpet, cornet, horn, trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, baritone horn, and tuba.
