What is an English horn?

English corner or Cor Anglais , as is also commonly known, is a member of the family of the Woodwinds hoboe, which also includes bagpipes, baritone hoboe, fagot, double bassoon, heckelphone, oboe and hoboe d'more. The English horn is the middle tool in this group. OBOE is the highest member, followed by OBOE D'AMORE, smaller third lower. The English corner is the fifth lower than the oboe, followed by a baritone or bass oboe, which are both lower.

The English corner was developed from OBOE da Caccia that was used earlier. oboe da caccia means "hunting oboe" and the instrument was used during the Baroque period. It is slightly longer than the oboe, and in the bell it varies noticeably, which is in the shape of a flask and sometimes referred to as amore bell . The English horn often plays the player Hoboj, part of which was folded to allow players to "double" on the English corner.

Italian composer TomaSo Giovanni Albinoni wrote three volumes Oboe Concertos and is considered the first Italian to compose concerts for oboj. The English horn was also used especially in the French composer Hector Berlioz's Roman carnival foreplay and Symphony Fantastique and in Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's Swan of Tuonel . There are also well -known sections in the Czech composer Antonin Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 , known as New World Symphony as well as in the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini's William Tell Overture and the German composer The English corner was also used in more modern music. Well -known instrumentalist Bob Cooper played jazz solos on oboe and English Horn, as well as tenor saxophone. Mitch Miller, although he probably remembered better as a popzuvákAnd the leader of the choir, who had a hit with "Yellow Rose of Texas" and hosted Sing with Mitch , was the perfect oboe player and the English horn and played them in Percy Faith. On the Frank Sinatra album you will find a rare and perhaps surprising combination that leads the music of Alec Wilder , a recording of 1946, which Sinatra leads Wilder's "Air for English Horn" among other things.