English horn

A double-reed woodwind instrument similar to but larger than the oboe and pitched lower by a fifth.

[Translation of French cor anglais, perhaps alteration of cor anglé, bent horn (from the curved crook to which the mouthpiece is attached) : cor, horn + anglé, bent.]

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English horn

(Instruments) music another name for cor anglais

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Eng′lish horn′

a large oboe, a fifth lower in pitch than the ordinary oboe, having a pear-shaped bell and producing a mellow tone.

[1830–40]

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Noun

English horn - a double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch

cor anglais

double reed, double-reed instrument - a woodwind that has a pair of joined reeds that vibrate together

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cor anglais

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English horn is Latin cornu; therefore English corn--Greek [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], a horn, is English kern and kernel; also grain, granum, garner.

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Janowski's music making is dramatic, to be sure, swinging from moody to energetic, but Monteux remains that much more ravishing in the central Allegretto, with its prominent English horn solo, and in the playfulness of the slender scherzo-like theme that follows.

Franck: Symphony in D Minor; Chausson: Symphony in B-flat

"Strauss wrote for this very large apparatus: three flutes, a piccolo, two oboes, an English horn, two clarinets, a C clarinet, a basset horn, a bass clarinet, three bassoons and a contra bassoon, in addition to four horns and so on and so forth.

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ALLISON'S unusual voice has been compared with a dobro, a fiddle, a musical saw, a duck call and even Sonny Boy Williamson playing the English horn. Let's simplify matters.

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