cor anglais BrE
English horn AmE

The opening cor anglais solo is taken virtually without change.

The slow movement with its solo played on the cor anglais is especially famous.

A rocking tune is heard on the cor anglais.

Berlioz used an oboe and a cor anglais for this.

Sometimes there is also a cor anglais which sounds a fifth lower than the oboe.

Music for the cor anglais is thus written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument actually sounds.

(The cor anglais, if any, would double the 1st horn in unison.

Some famous examples of cor anglais solos can be found in:

There is a larger version called the cor anglais (which means: "English horn").

A cor anglais is like an oboe but a fifth lower (Five notes of a scale.

Similarly, the cor anglais has a solo line in the opening of the second movement and is otherwise absent.

The cor anglais figures in the instrumental arrangements of several Carpenters songs.

The cor anglais, or English horn, is a double reed instrument in the woodwind family.

It has a prominent cor anglais solo.

Animé The symphony begins with an evocative melody played first by a cor anglais.

She plays the oboe, saxophone, accordion, piano and cor anglais.

Cor anglais, a double-reed woodwind musical instrument often called the "English horn"

The cor anglais is perceived to have a more mellow and plaintive tone than the oboe.

Autumn Legend for cor anglais and string orchestra (1954)

This gives it a less nasal sound (the sound of the cor anglais is less as if played through the nose).

Leprechauns for 2 oboes and cor anglais, Op.

(The cor anglais is, he notes, even in the late 1940s still played "without any vibrato").

The titular song, "Sendiri", is accompanied only by piano and cor anglais music.

Some specialise in the cor anglais, contrabasson or French bassoon.

Trio for two oboes and cor anglais (1912, Amsterdam)

Still, one had to ask, why the English horn?

The evolution of the English horn is more complex and less straightforward.

He was the founder of a great school of English horn playing.

The English horn line, by contrast, is the image of steadiness.

He is one of the few jazz musicians to play the english horn.

"The mezzo and English horn are sort of the same," she mused.

But he also creates moments, architecturally, where the English horn can float out its sound.

The Doorway for English horn and piano (2006), 4 minutes.

The fifth movement begins quietly as it builds to an English horn solo.

The song becomes quieter again, and the section ends with another English horn solo.

Trio for two oboes and English horn in C major.

Unusually, there are neither oboes nor English horns in this score.

Blajeny's voice was now more like an English horn than a cello.

His wife plays English horn in the San Francisco symphony.

Susie Myers, an English horn player, said in another telephone interview.

But he was heard most frequently on the modern oboe and sometimes its lower-pitched cousin, the English horn.

The bass oboe uses its own double reed, similar to but larger than that of the English horn.

It is usually a "special order" instrument, and its purchase price may exceed that of a top-of-the-line English horn.

The trumpet and English horn are both notable examples of episodic melodies.

Bassoons are double reed instruments like the oboe and the English horn.

"If I could have been an English horn major, I might still be playing."

It opens promisingly enough, with a poignant, lyrical melody in the English horn.

While in school, he studied the oboe and English horn, which he also plays on his albums.

Famous for the haunting melody played by the English horn above plucked harp and strings.

Better known chamber music for English horn includes: