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anglais horn: (kor afi-gle') Fr. a large sized double of all cla es because of the belief reed instrument, such as the tenor that its omi ion caused the soul to oboe. The music for this instrument wander bewailing its fate. In mod is written in the key of C but the ern Scotland this name has been instrument actually plays the inter given to the pibroch played by the val of a fifth lower than it is written. bagpipers ce ion. who The ancient lead the Irish funeral Its range of tone is from E below also prohad middle C to B flat two and a half a sort of coranach or funeral dirge, octaves higher. Its music is written in G clef. The name is misleading, coranto (ko-ran'-to) It. n. Literally, to run. for the instrument is by no means an 1. An old French dance, in three- English product and anglais is suptwo time. It was moderately rapid posed to refer to the angle or bend in time and began with an eighth that formerly appeared in the tube. note at the end of the bar; it had a Now the tube is straight throughout large number of dotted notes and its length. The cor anglais is an imrequired a staccatto execution. It portant orchestral instrument, consisted of two strains or parts, cor The ba e ba (kor-bas') horn. SeeFr.corno n. ba o, both repeated and in the old coranto the last bar of each part had six