1503—Innsbruck, Austria

At Maximilian’s chapel, “The sackbuts of the king [saqueboutes du roy] began the Gradual and played the Deo gratias and Ite missa est, and the singers of monseigneur [Philip] sang the Offertory” (Picker 224; Polk, Voices and Instruments). According to historian Keith Polk, the record of this event represents “one of the earliest specific references to participation actually within the liturgy” by a wind player (Polk, Susato 55).