[5] See Mersenne, loc. cit.
[6] See Ad. MS. 30342, Brit. Museum, fol. 145. A tract in French containing pen and ink sketches of musical instruments, which dates from the 17th or perhaps the 18th century, and was formerly in the possession of the Jesuit college in Paris. Here the pédalle is the bass pommer, or hautbois, and the sackbut is indicated as second bass or basse-contre. As also in Mersenne, the cornets are curved.
[7] See Moritz Fürstenau, Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe zu Dresden (Dresden, 1861-1862), p. 28.
[8] See Michel Brenet, “Deux comptes de la Chapelle Musique des rois de France,” Sammelband der Intern. Mus. Ges., vi. 1 (Leipzig, 1904), pp. 20, 21, 29; and Archives nationales (Paris), Z. Ia. 486.
[9] Das neu-eröffnete Orchester (Hamburg, 1713), p. 253.
[10] Der vollkommene Kapellmeister (Hamburg, 1739).
[11] See Mersenne, op. cit., bk. v., p. 274.
[12] Part of book iii. in MS. Harleian, 2034, fol. 207b. Brit. Museum.
[13] Delle imperfettioni della moderna musica (Venice, 1600), pp. 4, 5, 6 and 12b.
[14] Gräfl. Schönborn Bibl. Pommersfelden, Cod. 2776, reproduced in E. Buhle’s Die musikalischen Instrumente in den Miniatur-Handschriften des Mittelalters, part i. (Leipzig, 1903) pl. 6 and p. 24, where other references will be found.