When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: original horn instruments

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Horn (instrument) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument)

    Many traditional conservatories and players refused to use them at first, claiming that the valveless horn, or natural horn, was a better instrument. Some musicians, specializing in period instruments, still use a natural horn when playing in original performance styles, seeking to recapture the sound and tenor in which an older piece was written.

  3. Cor anglais - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_anglais

    The cor anglais (UK: / ˌ k ɔːr ˈ ɒ ŋ ɡ l eɪ /, US: /-ɑː ŋ ˈ ɡ l eɪ / [1] [2] or original French: [kɔʁ ɑ̃ɡlɛ]; [3] plural: cors anglais), or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially ...

  4. List of European medieval musical instruments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_medieval...

    Before applying to Saracen instruments, buisine applied to long horns and trumpets. [76] Circa 850 A.D., Utrecht Psalter, France/Germany. Wooden trumpets drawn by Anglo-Saxon artists. 1000 A.D. Angels blowing horns for the Apocalypse. Europeans in this era depicted horns as the instruments of war. 1237, Arabia.

  5. Alphorn - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphorn

    The alphorn may have developed from instruments like the lituus, a similarly shaped Etruscan instrument of classical antiquity, although there is little documented evidence of a continuous connection between them. A 2nd century Roman mosaic, found in Boscéaz near Orbe in Switzerland, depicts a shepherd using a similar straight horn. The use of ...

  6. Natural horn - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_horn

    The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves). Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the natural horn evolved as a separation from the trumpet by widening the bell and lengthening the tubes. [ 1 ]

  7. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_period_instruments

    The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".

  8. French horn - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_horn

    The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in 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, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.

  9. Gemshorn - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemshorn

    The hollow horn has tone holes down the front, like a recorder or clarinet. The pointed end of the horn is left intact, and serves as the bottom of the instrument. A fipple plug, usually of wood, is fitted into the wide end of the instrument, with a recorder type voicing window on the front of the horn, for tone production.