Horn

(Ger. Horn; Fr. cor; It. cor’no.) One of a group of bra wind-instr.s distinguished by the following characteristics: Cupped mouthpiece of conical shape; conical tube, narrow and long, variously bent upon itself (the smallest horn generally used, in high Bp, has a tube nearly g feet long; that an octave lower in pitch, nearly 18 feet); wide and flaring bell; the tone is rich and mellow, sonorous and penetrating; the compa lies between the and and 16th tones of the harmonic scale. The older natural or French Horn, yielding only the natural tones supplemented by Acta pitch; [ uv Horn in By C D Eb SF 2 be + Notation: _—— Partial tone16 «16 15 14 The stopped tones have a peculiarly sombre guality, and are often utilized for special effects; they can be produced on the valve-horn in exactly the Bo C D E& E ese ‘e ie low the given pitch-note being in each case the 2nd partial tone (octave of the generator), and repre- —— the horn be sented in each ——— ing a trans case by the note: posing instr.; when the G-clef is employed, the notes are written an octave higher than when noted in the F-clef, consequently Horn-band, A band of iruinpafers Ru ian horn-band, a band of performers on hunting-horns, each of which produces but one tone, the number of players and instrs being equal to that of the scale-tones required by any given piece; e.g. 37 for the chromatic scale of 3 octaves,