The smooth muted horns of "Moonlight Serenade" filled the room from a portable boom box on his coffee table.

Then it came, gliding out of the mist with muted splashing-a tall, gaunt ser-pent, mouth wide in a snarl, wicked horns probing from its forehead.

The clarinet sings an easy and soft melody, but in the middle some storms appear with the gloomy harmonies of the muted horns.

But there were also a few experiments in timbre, involving flutes, clarinets and muted horns.

The muted horns at times even injected a sarcastic note, seemingly held over from the Shostakovich in the program's first half.

The accompanying duo (muted horn and keyboard) kept the volume low so that patrons had the choice of listening or conversing.

For very romantic distant or 'echo' effects the muted horn blown very softly is admirable.

Lamentation for the first day (1759), for 5 voices with violins, oboes, clarinets and muted horns.

But residents in Greenport said engineers on older diesels sounded short, muted horns on the early morning train.

The main musical themes are introduced by woodwinds, with delicate but harmonically advanced underpinnings of muted horns, strings and harp.