Buccina

The Bucina (Latin bucina, also Buccina or Buccinum, " horn, trumpet " ) was a signal and musical instruments in the Roman Empire. She was a brass instrument made ​​of bronze, with or without a mouthpiece in the manner of a natural trumpet of 3.5 meters in length. It was usually carried curved so that they could carry the player around the head or shoulders. We used the bucina as shepherds horn and in the military announcing the four night watches. Three specimens were found in Pompeii, which are kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

To what extent the cornu of the bucina different, is controversial. The two clearly distinguishable from the bucina Roman Brass hot lituus and tuba.

Bucina is related Buq with the Arabic word that generally stood in the middle ages for conical trumpets and has handed buki in the Georgian metal trumpet. From bucina both the type and the name after over Old French Buisine and Middle High German busine the trumpet, how can see from the Renaissance period from Vegetius translations developed: " Bucina is the trummet the economic ausz and fed " ( Augsburg 1534 ). The Busine ( Buisine ) was a long trumpet, which was mentioned in the 12th century along with the goblet drum pair naqqara in French writings. The Romanian Bucium is one of the Ukrainian trembita corresponding long wooden trumpet.

Hector Berlioz asked for his fair solennelle 1824 an instrument called Buccin. It is a tenor trombone with an animal head redesigned bell that was used in French military bands from about 1810 to 1845.

Ottorino Respighi sat in the finals of the symphonic poem Pines of Rome (1924), a reconstructed Roman Bucinen.

• Natural trumpet
• Historical musical instrument
• Audible signal device
• Music ( Roman Empire )