Editing Cornett (section)

===Learning to play===
Books with cornett instruction included ''Grund-richtiger Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst'' (''Fundamentally correct instruction in the musical arts'') by [[Daniel Speer]], 1697<ref name=Groveonlinecornett/> and ''Museum Musicum Theoretico-Practicum'' (''Museum of theoretical-practical music'') by [[Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer]], 1732.<ref>{{cite book|last=Maier|first=Joseph F. |title= Museum Musicum Theoretico-Practicum |others=München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek |place= Schwäbisch Hall |date= 1732 |url= https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10527435?page=63 |quote= Applicatio zum Zinken}}</ref> Books written for other instruments were also applicable to the cornett. Among these were [[Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego|Ganassi 
dal Fontego]] (''Opera intitulata Fontegara'', 1535) and Bismantova (''Compendio musicale'', 1677).<ref name=Groveonlinecornett/> These books covered the recorder, but the instructions on "tonguing" with "force and speed" has application to the cornett,<ref name=Groveonlinecornett/> which was pictured on the ''Fontegara'' title page illustration.

Besides tonguing, books taught students to improvise. Students learning cornet music were encouraged to play in the "diminuative", looking at sheet music and adapting it by creating runs of fast notes to replace long slow notes in written works.<ref name=Groveonlinecornett/>

The book (''Il Vero Modo Di Diminuir'', 1584) by cornett virtoso [[Girolamo Dalla Casa]]  focused on tone, tonguing and [[Division (music)|divisions]] to make the cornett sound like the human voice.<ref>Dickey, Bruce. 1982. "The Decline of the Cornett: Most Excellent of Wind Instruments". Musick 4, no. 1 (September):23–32. p. 26.</ref><ref name=Rosenberg>{{cite journal |author= Girolamo dalla Casa detto da U dene |translator= Jesse Rosenberg |title= Il Vero Modo Di Diminuir |date=1584 |page=112 |journal= Historic Brass Society Journal |url= https://www.uco.edu/cfad/files/music/casa-vero-modo.pdf}}</ref>