cor anglais

English horn, French cor anglais, German Englischhorn, orchestral woodwind instrument, a large oboe pitched a fifth below the ordinary oboe, with a bulbous bell and, at the top end, a bent metal crook on which the double reed is placed. It is pitched in F, being written a fifth higher than it sounds.

As on all woodwind instruments it is primarily the keys which are used to produce the various pitches. Like all oboes, the English horn overblows to the octave. The speaker keys make overblowing largely redundant. The same fingering is used on the English horn as on the oboe, but the pitch is a fifth lower.

The modern English Horn/Cor Anglais was developed in around 1720, probably in Silesia (at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), by adding a pear-shaped bell to the oboe da caccia.

treble clef The cor anglais is usually notated in the treble clef, a perfect fifth higher than sounding.

32 in (81 cm) long. The English horn was developed from the tenor oboe, which played in military bands and other music. Aerophone: an instrument that produces its sound by the vibration of a column of air. The English horn, or cor anglais, is unusually named since it is neither English nor a horn.

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The oboe is a C woodwind with a base pitch tuned to C, while the cor anglais is an F woodwind with a base pitch tuned a perfect fifth lower, to F.

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The Oboe and the Cor Anglais (English Horn) are conical bore, double reed instruments, that are a standard feature of most orchestras. They generally occupy the alto register in the woodwind section.

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 sounds.

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noun. : a double-reed woodwind instrument resembling the oboe in design but having a longer tube and a range a fifth lower than that of the oboe.