Used since antiquity by all armies and codified from the 16th century in various martial arts treaties, the celeustic is all the techniques using musical instruments to transmit orders to the troops. Thus, for a long time confined to the music of order, the trumpet, an instrument of the armies, begins to emancipate with the advent of ceremonial music in ensembles
trumpets and timbales, through the Italian tradition of the semi- improvised sonata described by the head of the trumpets of the Munich Court
Cesare Bendinelli (ca.1542-1617).

Then, with the Italian virtuoso Girolamo Fantini (1600-1675), the trumpet was gradually considered a true musical instrument accompanied by the bass continues keyboards such as the organ or melodic as the painful, but also capable of dialogue with instruments of above such as the violin. Finally, the composers of the basilica San Petronio of Bologna as Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) began to use it for solos framed by string ritournels.

It is this amazing journey of the flamboyant and luminous trumpet that we offer you to retrace with the Italian organ of Providence in beautiful works of Italian composers...

Ensemble de la Société de Musique Ancienne de Nice(Professionals)
Jean-François Madeuf : natural trumpet
Flavio Losco : baroque violin
Jérémie Papasergio : doulciane
Mathilde Mugot: historical organ of the Concone brothers of Providence