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A buccina (
who blew a buccina was called a "buccinator" or "bucinator" (Latin: buccinātor, būcinātor).Design
It was originally designed as a tube made of either bronze or shells.
Usage
The buccina was used for the announcement of night watches, to summon soldiers by means of the special signal known as classicum, and to give orders.[4] Frontinus relates that a Roman general, who had been surrounded by the enemy, escaped during the night by means of the stratagem of leaving behind him a buccinator (trumpeter), who sounded the watches throughout the night.[3][5]
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History
The instrument is the ancestor of both the
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4422-5780-1.
- ISBN 978-3-7525-1057-7.
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Buccina". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 711–712. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Vegetius, De re militari, ii. 22, iii. 5; Polybiusvi. 365, xiv. 3, 7.
- ^ Stratagematicon, i. 5, § 17.
- Kennedy Center.
- ^ Constant Pierre, Les Hymnes et Chansons de la Révolution française, aperçu général et catalogue, avec notices historiques, analytiques et bibliographiques, 1904, pages 210–213.
External links
- Buccina in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
- Roman Music Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine