A double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch.
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Examples for "cor anglais "
Examples for "cor anglais "
1 This year piccolo, cor anglais , bass clarinet and contrabassoon were requirements.
2 The cor anglais solo is by Kate St John.
3 The enthusiastic audience gave a special ovation to Louise Cox, who played the famous 2nd movement cor anglais melody.
4 The cor anglais is prominent throughout, as a kind of "steady voice", while the various moods of the piece fluctuate around it.
5 The cor Anglais is in present use.
1 Then she spoke in a low voice- acontraltolike the darker tones of an English horn : -
2 In music it is an English horn , or the deep notes of wood instruments (e.g.
3 But against the soothing background the story (of English horn ) has a chill, ominous strain.
4 English horn , and continues almost to the end, broken only by the dialogue of the lover themes.
5 Does Herr Feiner play the English horn ?
6 The slow trip of strings and harp is soon given a new meaning with the melody of English horn .
7 The English horn comes in so effectively there," she rose and indicated the passage, "just right with the voice.
8 Mr. Twigley plucked a blade of grass and ran it lightly over his lips till it sounded like an English horn .
9 It is first given out by two oboes divided, a single English horn , two bassoons in unison, and four trombones in unison.
10 Nor has he accepted the solo on the English horn which I heard at St. Thomas one evening during the Perpetual Adoration.
11 As we suspected, the lower proves really the principal song as it winds on in the languorous English horn or in the higher reed.
12 Shrill and clear from the opposite hill came the notes of the English horns , as down the green slope moved the ranks of English bowmen.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for english horn