Sonnez trompettes ! ou l'éclat du cuivre

Used since antiquity by all armies and codified from the 16th century in various martial arts treatises, celeustics is the set of techniques using musical instruments to transmit orders to troops. Thus, for a very long time confined to ordinance music, the trumpet, an instrument of the armies, began to emancipate itself with the advent of ceremonial music in trumpet and timpani ensembles, through the Italian tradition of the semi-improvised sonata described by the chief trumpet player of the...