"(1824) Antonín Dvořák attempted a half-hearted revival, using the instrument in his Czech Suite (1879), in which he specifies that an English horn (cor anglais) may be used instead, but the instrument was largely abandoned until Richard Strauss took it up once more in his operas ""Elektra"" (1909), ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"", ""Daphne"", ""Die Liebe der Danae"", and ""Capriccio"", and several later works, including two wind sonatinas (Happy Workshop and Invalid's Workshop). Franz Schreker also employed the instrument in a few works including the operas ""Die Gezeichneten"" and ""Irrelohe"". Roger Sessions included a basset horn in the orchestra"
"Cor anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ""cors anglais"") or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe. The cor anglais is a transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe (a C instrument). This means that music for the cor anglais is written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument actually sounds. The fingering and playing technique used for the cor anglais are essentially the same as those of the oboe and oboists"
"played at the end of each episode of ""The Sweeney"". The instrument also features prominently in the theme music to the ITV productions of ""Brideshead Revisited"" and ""The Chief"". Paul McCartney holds a cor anglais on the album cover of ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". The instrument also features in the 2005 film """" (referred to as an oboe). Cor anglais The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ""cors anglais"") or English horn in North America, is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe."
"Tenor horn The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family, and is usually pitched in E. It has a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and baritone horn, and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece. It is most commonly used in British brass bands, whereas the French horn tends to take the corresponding parts in concert bands and orchestras. However, the tenor horn has occasionally been used as an alternative to the French horn in concert bands. The tenor"
"replacement for the French horn. In the past, many publishers included parts in both Eb (for the tenor horn) and F (for the French horn). These parts were the same, just transposed into the pitch of the given instrument. Some publishers still follow this practice. Although Gustav Mahler orchestrated his Seventh Symphony to include one ""tenorhorn in B"", that instrument is more akin to the baritone horn. Partial list of solo repertoire: Tenor horn The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn"
"in the US). The name ""German horn"" is used to distinguish this instrument from other, similar types of orchestral horn, such as the French horn (in the sense of the type of instrument designed by French makers and favoured by French players) and the Vienna horn. The adjective is normally omitted when referring to the instrument, which in colloquial usage is sometimes confusingly referred to as the ""French"" horn. The added word ""French"" is still found in some tutors and instrumental books, but is now regarded as a colloquialism, having passed out of the usage of composers, scholars, and professional"
"bent at an angle, ""angulaire"" in modern French), but this has been rejected on grounds that there is no evidence of the term ""cor anglé"" before it was offered as a possible origin of ""anglais"" in the late 19th century. Until the 20th century, there were few solo pieces for the instrument with a large ensemble (such as orchestra or concert band). Important examples of such concertos and concertante works are: † Though concertante in nature, these are just orchestral works featuring extensive solos, with the player seated within the orchestra Better known chamber music for English horn includes: The"
"note, and the use of hand-stopping for the smaller horns to add one or two lower semitones. The German horn is the most common type of orchestral horn, and is ordinarily known simply as the ""horn"". The ""double horn in F/B♭"" is the version most used by professional bands and orchestras. A musician who plays the German horn is called a horn player (or, less frequently, a hornist). Pitch is controlled through the adjustment of lip tension in the mouthpiece and the operation of valves by the left hand, which route the air into extra tubing. German horns have lever-operated"
"or English horn (Eh) is featured: Oboes in popular music The soprano oboe (in C) and its alto version, the English horn (in F) , are instruments generally associated with art music, but they have been used sporadically in popular music recordings, generally by (often uncredited) studio musicians on recordings of specific songs. In the late 1960s and 1970s, several bands emerged that featured oboists as members, including The Moody Blues (Ray Thomas), Henry Cow (Lindsay Cooper), New York Rock & Roll Ensemble (Martin Fulterman and Michael Kamen), Roxy Music (Andy Mackay), Electric Light Orchestra (Roy Wood), Wizzard (Roy Wood),"
"other achievements, but also play the horn, include actors Ewan McGregor and David Ogden Stiers, comedian and television host Jon Stewart, journalist Chuck Todd, The Who bassist and singer John Entwistle, and rapper and record producer B.o.B. French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the ""horn"" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands. A musician who plays a French"
"has recommended since 1971 that the instrument be simply called the ""horn"". There is also a more specific use of ""French horn"" to describe a particular horn type, differentiated from the German horn and Vienna horn. In this sense, ""French horn"" refers to a narrow-bore instrument () with three Périnet (piston) valves. It retains the narrow bell-throat and mouthpipe crooks of the orchestral hand horn of the late 18th century, and most often has an ""ascending"" third valve. This is a whole-tone valve arranged so that with the valve in the ""up"" position the valve loop is engaged, but when"
"a large number for basset horn. The Italian name for the instrument, ""corno di bassetto"", was used by Bernard Shaw as a pseudonym when writing music criticism. Basset horn The basset horn (sometimes written basset-horn) is a musical instrument, a member of the clarinet family. Like the clarinet, the instrument is a wind instrument with a single reed and a cylindrical bore. However, the basset horn is larger and has a bend near the mouthpiece rather than an entirely straight body (older instruments are typically curved or bent in the middle), and while the clarinet is typically a transposing instrument"
"in England before the 1830s. In the Penny Cyclopedia in 1838 (""The English Horn, or Corno Inglese, is a deeper-toned oboe...""), while the first identified printed use of the term ""cor anglais"" in English was in 1870. In the UK the instrument is colloquially generally referred to as the ""cor"". The local equivalent for ""English horn"" is used in most other European languages, while a few languages use their equivalent of ""alto oboe"". Due to the earlier bowed or angular forms it took, the suggestion has been made that ""anglais"" might be a corruption of Middle French ""anglé"" (angular, or"
"distinction between ""trompes"", trumpets, and ""cors"", horns, did not exist at that time). German makers first devised ""crooks"" to make such horns playable in different keys—so musicians came to use ""French"" and ""German"" to distinguish the simple hunting horn from the newer horn with crooks, which in England was also called by the Italian name ""corno cromatico"" (chromatic horn). More recently, ""French horn"" is often used colloquially, though the adjective has normally been avoided when referring to the European orchestral horn, ever since the German horn began replacing the French-style instrument in British orchestras around 1930. The International Horn Society"
"1148 was a bell forward model. In the US, the alto horn is colloquially known as the ""peck horn"", supposedly because these instruments were employed in band music to ""peck away at"" the upbeats. This name is mentioned in ""The Music Man"". The tenor horn is very rarely included in the symphony orchestra, where its place is taken by the French horn. Instead, it is a fixture of British brass bands, where it often plays a role similar to that of the orchestral horn in the symphony orchestra. The tenor horn has also been used in concert bands as a"
"English horn's timbre makes it well suited to the performance of expressive, melancholic solos in orchestral works (including film scores) as well as operas. Famous examples are: Though primarily featured in classical music, the cor anglais has also been used by a few musicians as a jazz instrument; most prominent among these are Paul McCandless, Jean-Luc Fillon, Sonny Simmons, and Vinny Golia (see also Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres). From the mid-1930s, Mitch Miller played the instrument in popular radio orchestras and made a number of recordings with the instrument, notably solos on the albums ""Music Until Midnight"" (1954)"
"(1962), and György Ligeti (1982). German horn The German horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell, and in bands and orchestras is the most widely used of three types of horn, the other two being the French horn (in the less common, narrower meaning of the term) and the Vienna horn. Its use among professional players has become so universal that it is only in France and Vienna that any other kind of horn is used today. A musician who plays the German horn is called a horn player (or less"
"Steerhorn The steerhorn (German: ""stierhorn"", also known in English as a cowhorn or bullhorn) is an extremely long medieval bugle horn. The instrument has been used both orchestrally and in war. The steerhorn has a straight tube with an exact conical bore and no bell flare. The steerhorn is used in Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", as the score requires one steerhorn in ""Die Walküre"" and four in ""Götterdämmerung"". Today, many orchestras substitute the trombone or bass trombone. The Solti recording, the Golden Ring, had a steerhorn specially made as American soldiers carried off Bayreuth's steerhorns after the end of"
"the standard instrument of German orchestras. The product portfolio also comprises trumpets, flugelhorns, Wagner tubas, baritone horns, euphoniums and tubas. Alexander – or ""Alex"" – horns are a popular choice with professional players. Probably the best-known Alexander horn is that played by Dennis Brain in his near-legendary recordings of the Mozart horn concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra. This instrument was badly damaged in the crash which killed Brain, but was restored by Paxman of London and is now on display, along with an Alex played by Brain's uncle Alfred Brain, in the Royal Academy of Music museum. On the occasion"
"Baritone horn The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and alto (tenor) horn, but is narrower than the conical bore of the euphonium. It uses a wide-rimmed cup mouthpiece like that of its peers, the trombone and euphonium. Like the trombone and the euphonium, the baritone horn can be considered either a transposing or non-transposing instrument. In the UK, the baritone horn is frequently found in brass bands. In concert band music, there is"
"orchestral repertoire that requires a more mellow sound. The name cornet derives from corne, meaning ""horn"", itself from Latin cornu. While not musically related, instruments of the Zink family (which includes serpents) are named ""cornetto"" or ""cornett"" in modern English to distinguish them from the valved cornet described here. The 11th edition of the ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" referred to serpents as ""old wooden cornets"". The Roman/Etruscan cornu (or simply ""horn"") is the lingual ancestor of these. It is a predecessor of the post horn from which the cornet evolved and was used like a bugle to signal orders on the battlefield."
"English horn. From 1948 to 1950, major expansion, all stages of production now taking place there. Original Sources Studies Cabart Cabart is a French brand of musical wind instruments. As an independent brand, it was declined by the names Thibouville-Cabart and Cabart a Paris. The name was bought out by F. Lorée in 1974 to name its range of student-level oboes: Cabart 74 and Cabart. The Thibouville family is from La Couture-Boussey (Eure, France). From the early nineteenth century, its members would create about two dozen musical instruments brands with the name Thibouville. Jean-Baptiste Thibouville, born May 4, 1832, in"
"(a quality also called legato and often called-for in the oboe repertoire). The standard oboe has several siblings of various sizes and playing ranges. The most widely known and used today is the cor anglais, or English horn, the tenor (or alto) member of the family. A transposing instrument; it is pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe. The oboe d'amore, the alto (or mezzo-soprano) member of the family, is pitched in A, a minor third lower than the oboe. J.S. Bach made extensive use of both the oboe d'amore as well as the ""taille"" and oboe"
"French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the ""horn"" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands. A musician who plays a French horn is known as a horn player or hornist. Pitch is controlled through the combination of the following factors: speed of air through the instrument (controlled by the player's lungs and thoracic diaphragm); diameter and tension of"
"America and German-speaking countries) or cor anglais (the name used in England and France), as it largely developed at the same time as the English horn. The evolution of the English horn is more complex and less straightforward. The da caccia sounds like none of the other members of the oboe family, and no other instrument may legitimately substitute for it—although the English horn is routinely used for this purpose. After Bach, the oboe da caccia quickly fell out of use. The knowledge of its exact sound and construction was lost, and instruments once believed to be oboes da caccia"
"German horn The German horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell, and in bands and orchestras is the most widely used of three types of horn, the other two being the French horn (in the less common, narrower meaning of the term) and the Vienna horn. Its use among professional players has become so universal that it is only in France and Vienna that any other kind of horn is used today. A musician who plays the German horn is called a horn player (or less frequently, a hornist). The word"
"it was given the Italian name ""corno inglese"". Gluck and Haydn followed suit in the 1750s, and the first English horn concertos were written in the 1770s. The Schwarzenberg Wind Harmonie of 1771 employed 2 Cor Anglais as well as 2 Oboes, 2 Bassoons and 2 Horns. The Prince Fürst Joseph Adam Johann Nepomuk Franz de Paula Joachim Judas Thaddäus Abraham von Schwarzenberg (1680-1732) was a keen boar hunter and so most probably employed Oboe de Caccia players, which explains the preference for the new Cor Anglais as opposed to the Clarinet. Johan Went was 1st Cor Anglais and Ignaz"
"World War II. Steerhorn The steerhorn (German: ""stierhorn"", also known in English as a cowhorn or bullhorn) is an extremely long medieval bugle horn. The instrument has been used both orchestrally and in war. The steerhorn has a straight tube with an exact conical bore and no bell flare. The steerhorn is used in Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", as the score requires one steerhorn in ""Die Walküre"" and four in ""Götterdämmerung"". Today, many orchestras substitute the trombone or bass trombone. The Solti recording, the Golden Ring, had a steerhorn specially made as American soldiers carried off Bayreuth's steerhorns after"
"parts are rarely included in later American pieces, however, and cornets are replaced in modern American bands by the trumpet. This slight difference in instrumentation derives from the British concert band's heritage in military bands, where the highest brass instrument is always the cornet. There are usually four to six B cornets present in a British concert band, but no E instrument, as this role is taken by the E clarinet. Fanfare orkesten (""fanfare orchestras""), found in only the Netherlands, Belgium, Northern France and Lithuania, use the complete saxhorn family of instruments. The standard instrumentation includes both the cornet and"
"English horns, an E♭ clarinet, a contrabass clarinet, two alto saxophones, two baritone saxophones, three bassoons, a contrabassoon, six horns, four B♭trumpets (alternating one D trumpet), four trombones, two tubas, percussion (4 players), twenty violins, eight violas, eight celli, six basses, harp, piano, harmonium, organ, and bass electric guitar. The percussionists play timpani, military drum, friction drum, bass drum, slapstick, five wood blocks, ratchet, guiro, bamboo scrapers, cymbals, six suspended cymbals, 2 tam-tams, 2 gongs, Javanese gong, triangle, tubular bells, church bell, sacring bells, musical saw, flexatone, and siren (not mentioned in the instrumentation list at the beginning of the"
"the violin, viola, baryton, and various lutes dominated popular music. Beginning in around 1750, however, the lute disappeared from musical compositions in favor of the rising popularity of the guitar. As the prevalence of string orchestras rose, wind instruments such as the flute, oboe, and bassoon were readmitted to counteract the monotony of hearing only strings. In the mid-seventeenth century, what was known as a hunter's horn underwent transformation into an ""art instrument"" consisting of a lengthened tube, a narrower bore, a wider bell, and much wider range. The details of this transformation are unclear, but the modern horn or,"
"Natural horn The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the ancestor of the modern-day (French) horn, and is differentiated by its lack of valves. It consists of a mouthpiece, some long coiled tubing, and a large flared bell. Pitch changes are made through a few techniques: This instrument was used extensively until the emergence of the valved horn in the early 19th century. The natural horn has several gaps in its harmonic range. To play chromatically, in addition to crooking the instrument into the right key, two additional techniques are required: ""bending"" and ""hand-stopping"". Bending a note is"
"English horn, piccolo clarinet (in E), 2 clarinets (in A), bass clarinet (in A), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, snare drum, cymbals, bass drum, wood block, tam-tam, harp, strings, and the solo piano. Although at first Wittgenstein did not take to its jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies, he grew to like the piece. Ravel's other concerto, the Piano Concerto in G, is more widely known and played. When Ravel first heard Wittgenstein play the concerto at a private concert in the French embassy in Vienna, he was furious. 'He heard lines taken from the"