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Definition of Cornists
1. cornist [n] - See also: cornist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornists
Literary usage of Cornists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct by Bernard Burke (1866)
"Sir Samuel cornists, Bare., and d. before him. ii. Elizabeth, d. tmm. iii.
Margaret, rn to Sir Charles Middleton, Bert., ..."
2. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1900)
"... thereafter: he distinctly remembered the excellent Bohemian cornists whom he
had procured from a military band; they had strange great winding horns, ..."
3. The Musical World (1855)
"... not merely amateur but professional The horn parts, par exemple, are preposterous,
and when doubled become doubly preposterous. The cornists in Handel's ..."
4. On Conducting =: (Ueber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the by Richard Wagner, Edward Dannreuther (1887)
"The orchestra actually studied the too-well-known overture anew. Discreetly led
by R. Lewi, the cornists * A sentimental song by Proch. ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"... is considered now as absolutely impracticable) ; and the high ut of the La
cornet. Hence it has been said : " Now-a-days trumpeters and cornists have no ..."
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