Editing Cornett (section)

===Virtuoso performance===
The cornett, among other aerophones, were commonly used for virtuosic musical performances, equivalent to performances by a lead singer or violinist.<ref name=Groveonlinecornett/> A relatively large amount of solo music for the cornett (and/or violin) survives.

[[File:Musicians from 'Procession in honour of Our Lady of Sablon in Brussels'.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Musicians from 'Procession in honour of Our Lady of Sablon in Brussels.' Early 17th-century Flemish [[alta cappella]]. From left to right: bass [[dulcian]], alto [[shawm]], treble cornett, soprano shawm, alto shawm, tenor [[sackbut]].]]

[[Giovanni Bassano]] was a virtuoso early player of the cornett, and [[Giovanni Gabrieli]] wrote much of his [[Venetian polychoral style|polychoral]], with Bassano playing it.<ref>{{cite book |last= Selfridge-Field |first= Eleanor |title= Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi |place=New York |publisher= Dover Publications |date= 1994 |isbn= 0-486-28151-5 |page=15 |url= https://archive.org/details/venetianinstrume00self/page/15/mode/1up?q=Bassano}}</ref> [[Heinrich Schütz]] also used the instrument extensively, especially in his earlier work; he had studied in Venice with Gabrieli and was likely acquainted with Bassano's playing.<ref>{{Cite Grove |last=Arnold |first=Denis |author-link=Denis Arnold |title=Giovanni Bassano |volume=2 |page=254 }}</ref>

The use of the instrument had declined by 1700, although the instrument was still common in Europe until the late 18th century. [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], [[Georg Philipp Telemann]] and their German contemporaries used both the cornett and cornettino in cantatas to play in unison with the soprano voices of the choir. Occasionally, these composers allocated a solo part to the cornetto (see Bach's cantata ''[[O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV 118]]''). [[Alessandro Scarlatti]] used the cornetto or pairs of cornetts in a number of his operas. [[Johann Joseph Fux]] used a pair of mute cornetts in a Requiem.

It was scored for by [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|Gluck]], in his opera ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]'' (he suggested the [[soprano trombone]] as an alternative) and features in the TV theme music ''Testament'' by [[Nigel Hess]], released in 1983.

The cornett was chosen to play ''[[colla parte]]''  (in which instrumentalists play the same notes as the vocal part) in works by [[Bach]]. These include [[Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4]] (paired with trombones)<ref>{{cite book| last = Dürr| first = Alfred| author-link = Alfred Dürr| others = Translated by [[Richard D. P. Jones]]| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA262| title = The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text | publisher = Oxford University Press| year = 2006| isbn = 978-0-19-929776-4}}</ref> and [[Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende, BWV 28]] (paired with trombones).<ref name=hof>[[Klaus Hofmann]] (2007), [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Rec-BIG/Suzuki-C39c%5BBIS-SACD1641%5D.pdf Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende /Praise God! Now the Year Draws to a Close, BWV 28] (pp. 6–7), ''Bach Cantatas Website''</ref>