Word: cornetto
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...this appearance, Noah Greenberg conducted the New York Pro Musica's augmented Motet Choir, a thirty-five member group including six countertenors and ten boy choristers from New York's Little Church Around the Corner. The instrumental section consisted of two sackbuts, a shawm and a cornetto. This ensemble produced a terribly impressive, almost ethereal range of tonal coloring that perfectly suited the spiritual splendor of the programme...
...processional based on Heinrich Isaac's La Mi La Sol exhibited the lavish potentialities of cornetto, sackbut and shawm. The intricate syncopation of this piece is akin to the spirit of many of Gabrielli's horn canzone...