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Cor anglais   Listen
Cor anglais

noun
1.
A double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch.  Synonym: English horn.






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"Cor anglais" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the smallest in size of the hautboy tribe, of which only two now survive—viz., the Oboe proper, and its cousin, which is a fifth lower in pitch, and correspondingly larger, and which has curiously picked up the name of Corno Inglese, Cor Anglais, or English Horn. None the less it is the Alto Hautboy. The tenor and bass of the family have not survived. Hautboys in four parts were the backbone of the French regimental bands in Lully's ...
— Shakespeare and Music - With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries • Edward W. Naylor



Words linked to "Cor anglais" :   double-reed instrument, English horn, double reed



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