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2 unusual facts about Broken consort


Broken consort

There are also twenty-five surviving compositions for this type of consort by several composers in a collection published by Thomas Morley (1599/1611).

Tenor cornett

Orlando di Lassus employed the tenor cornett in various Broken consort combinations of instruments in performances under his direction at the Munich court.



see also

Ian Vine

writing on water (1999-), commissioned by Matthew Herbert and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short (sometimes only 20 seconds long) works using recorded acoustic instruments; and shadow grounds (1999), commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the ensemble recherche as part of their In Nomine Broken Consort Book, a 3 minute non-miniature of suspended sound.