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Definition of Sackbuts
1. sackbut [n] - See also: sackbut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sackbuts
Literary usage of Sackbuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1880)
"6 sackbuts 8 viols, and 3 players on the virginals. Charles I. in 1625 had in
his pay 8 performers on the hautboys and sackbuts, 6 flutes, 6 recorders, ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"Cornets and sackbuts were the first instruments employed to join the organ.
The first named instruments played for generations very important parts in the ..."
3. Six Anthemsby John Milton, Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright by John Milton, Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright (1900)
"In Italy it is evident that the use of wind-instruments, cornets and sackbuts in
particular, in Church Music was not approved. Galileo has some disparaging ..."
4. Six Anthems by John Milton, Godfrey Edward Pellew Arkwright (1900)
"In Italy it is evident that the use of wind-instruments, cornets and sackbuts in
particular, in Church Music was not approved. Galileo has some disparaging ..."
5. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"... a harp, 2 viols, io sackbuts, a fife, ... 6 sackbuts, 8 viols, and 3 players
on the virginals. ..."
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