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'Lost' music instrument recreated
By Pallab Ghosh
Science Correspondent, BBC News




New software has enabled researchers to recreate a long forgotten
musical instrument called the Lituus.

The 2.4m (8ft) long trumpet-like instrument was played in Ancient Rome
but fell out of use some 300 years ago.

Bach's motet (a choral musical composition) "O Jesu Christ, meins
lebens licht" was one of the last pieces of music written for the
Lituus.

Now, for the first time, this 18th Century composition has been played
as it should have been heard.

Researchers from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) and the University of Edinburgh collaborated on the
study.

Performed by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) the Lituus produced
a piercing trumpet-like sound interleaving with the vocals.

Until now, no one had a clear idea of what this instrument looked or
sounded like.

But researchers at Edinburgh University developed a system that
enabled them to design the Lituus from the best guesses of its shape
and range of notes.

The result was a 2.4m (8ft) -long thin straight horn, with a flared
bell at the end.

Hard to play

It is an unwieldy instrument with a limited tonal range that is hard
to play. But played well, it gives Johann Sebastian Bach's motet a
haunting feel that couldn't be reproduced by modern instruments.

The software was originally developed by a PhD student Dr Alistair
Braden to improve the design of modern brass instruments.

But Dr Braden and his supervisor Professor Murray Campbell, were
approached by a Swiss-based music conservatoire specialising in early
music, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, to help them recreate the
Lituus - even though no one alive today has heard, played or even seen
a picture of this forgotten instrument.

SCB gave the Edinburgh team their expert thoughts on what the Lituus
may have been like in terms of the notes it produced, its tonal
quality and how it might have been played.

They also provided cross-section diagrams of instruments they believed
to be similar to the Lituus.

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