With the help of rhythm, these component parts have given rise to a whole series of themes and phrases named fanfares, trumpet calls or flourishes, best adapted to the character of brass instruments.
In modern music, thanks to the introduction of valves, this scale is now possible in all keys for every chromatic brass instrument, without it being necessary to change the key, and the addition of a few notes foreign to the natural scale has enriched the possibilities of these flourishes and fanfares, and endowed them with greater variety of expression.
These phrases, either as solos, or in two or three parts, fall specially to the lot of the trumpets and horns, but they may also be given to the trombones. The full, clear, ringing notes of the middle and upper register of horns and trumpets are best suited to figures of this description.
Examples:
Servilia 20—Trumpets.
The Christmas Night 182—Horn, Trumpets.
Vera Scheloga, beginning of Overture, and after 45—Horn, Trumpets.
Ivan the Terrible, Act III 3—Cornet.
Snegourotchka 155—Trumpets.
[No. 70.] Legend of Kitesh 65 and elsewhere.—3 Trumpets, 4 Horns.