单词 | french horn |
释义 | > as lemmasFrench horn French horn n. a brass wind instrument with valves, a long, coiled tube, and a wide bell (see horn n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > French horn French horn1682 horn1682 corno1818 waldhorn1852 pretzel1923 1682 Loyal Protestant & True Domestick Intelligence 7 Mar. (advt.) Any Gentleman may be furnished with Trumpets, French horns, Speaking Trumpets. 1715 T. Burnet Second Tale of Tub xvii. 189 First, rode a Post-Boy, sounding with a French Horn a Fox Chase. 1800 Times 14 Mar. 1/1 (advt.) Trio for two French Horns, and Viola da Gamba. 1963 J. N. Iannuzzi What's Happening 10 The ‘yawl’ of a French horn, the tinkle of a piano. 2004 Cadence May 40/2 The French horn section of a large symphony orchestra. French horn c. More fully French horn. An orchestral wind instrument of the trumpet class, developed from the hunting-horn, and consisting of a continuous tube some 17 feet in length, curved for convenience in holding, and having a wide bell and a conoidal mouthpiece. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > French horn French horn1682 horn1682 corno1818 waldhorn1852 pretzel1923 1682 Loyal Protestant & True Domestick Intelligence 7 Mar. (advt.) Any Gentleman may be furnished with Trumpets, French horns, Speaking Trumpets. 1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 268 The voice was drown'd By the French horn, or by the op'ning hound. 1753 Scots Mag. Sept. 427/1 A band of French horns. 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 149 There were two organs, and two pair of French horns. 1856 M. C. Clarke tr. H. Berlioz Treat. Mod. Instrumentation 129 All horns with the exception of the horn in C, are transposing instruments. 1879 W. H. Stone in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 748/1 The hunting horn finally adopted differs from the orchestral horn in consisting of an unbroken spiral of three turns, sufficiently large to be worn obliquely round the body, resting on one shoulder and passing under the opposite arm. 1879 W. H. Stone in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 748/2 The introduction of the Horn into the orchestra is attributed to Gossec. 1961 R. M. Pegge in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xii. 297 In England [sc. in the 18th cent.]..the French horn was chiefly used for the purposes of entertainment in the pleasure gardens and on the river, two performers playing duets being the usual thing. Rich men of family and fashion sometimes included in their retinues French horn players, often Negroes, to add panache to their equipages. < as lemmas |
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