minstrel: brass fanfares

[Greg Lindahl]

You might find this posting from rec.music.early of interest:

From: "M. Schulter" <mschulter at value.net>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.trumpet,rec.org.sca,rec.music.early
Subject: Re: baroque trumpet update
Date: 15 Mar 1998 01:47:51 GMT
Message-ID: <6efc07$a83$7 at vnetnews.value.net>

In rec.music.early Dwight Hall <dwihall at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

: I'm still very interested if anyone can direct me to some pre-17th
: century fanfare melodies.

As I recall, the "Monk of Salzburg" presents some horn music in a treatise
or collection of around 1400.

One famous fanfare is Josquin's Vive le roy from around 1500 for Louis
XII.

Also, there's Dufay's _Gloria ad modum tubae_ from the 1420's, maybe (I
seem to recall that it's regarded as an early work), a really lively
setting with an ostinato having a leap of a fourth which could be
performed on a horn (as it has been done in some modern recordings).

Other pieces have fanfare-like motives, for example _Alarme, Alarme_ by
Grimace (late 14th century or thereabouts), one of the delightful
"program" pieces of the time, and of course Jannequin's battle chanson to
celebrate the victory of Francois I at Marignon in 1515, complete with
some artillery effects.

Most respectfully,

Margo Schulter