The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . 712 BUCCLEUCH, DUKES OF—BUCENTAUR. the watches throughout the night. Vegetius gives brief descrip-tions of the three instruments, which suffice to estabKsh theiridentity; the tuba, he says, is straight; the buccina is of bronzebent in the form of a circle. The buccina, in respect of its technical construction andacoustic properties, was the ancestor of both trumpet andtrombone; the connexion is further established by the deriva-tion of the words Sackbut and Posaune (the German for trombone)from buc
The encyclopdia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . 712 BUCCLEUCH, DUKES OF—BUCENTAUR. the watches throughout the night. Vegetius gives brief descrip-tions of the three instruments, which suffice to estabKsh theiridentity; the tuba, he says, is straight; the buccina is of bronzebent in the form of a circle. The buccina, in respect of its technical construction andacoustic properties, was the ancestor of both trumpet andtrombone; the connexion is further established by the deriva-tion of the words Sackbut and Posaune (the German for trombone)from buccina. The relation was fully recognized in Germany during the 15th and i6thcenturies, as two trans-lations of Vegetius, pub-lished at Ulm in 1470,and at Augsburg in 1534,clearly demonstrate: Bucina das ist die trumetOder pusan ( the bucinais the trumpet or trom-bone ), and Bucina istdie trummet die wirt auszund eingezogen* (thebucina is the trumpet whichis drawn out and in ). ,^^-?;T?^^^H^^ ^*^- , French translation by Jean() ^e Meung (Paris, 1488),= renders the passage (chap. iii. 5) thus: Trompe e
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