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  2. List of horn techniques - Wikipedia

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    However, playing a 3rd space C (F-horn, open) and repeating the stopped horn, the pitch will lower a half-step to a B-natural (or 1/2 step above B ♭, the next lower partial). The hand horn technique developed in the classical period, with music pieces requiring the use of covering the bell to various degrees to lower the pitch accordingly.

  3. French horn - Wikipedia

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    The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.

  4. List of compositions for horn - Wikipedia

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    Three compositions for Horn; Music for five for Horn and four percussions; Lyric Fragment for Mezzo-soprano, Horn and Piano; Sonata No. 1 for Horn and Piano; Lyrics for Horn and Piano; Sonata No. 2 for Horn and Piano; Werner Pirchner. Born for Horn, for four horns, PWV 36 [3] Wolfgang Plagge. Sonata No. 1 for Horn and Piano, Op. 8; Sonata No. 2 ...

  5. Crook (music) - Wikipedia

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    "Cor solo" (natural horn) – Raoux, Paris, 1797 – Paris, Musée de la Musique (with a double-loop crook located within the body of the horn).. A crook, also sometimes called a shank, is an exchangeable segment of tubing in a natural horn (or other brass instrument, such as a natural trumpet) which is used to change the length of the pipe, altering the fundamental pitch and harmonic series ...

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, the {{blockquote}} template provides parameters for attribution and citation which will appear below the quotation. (For use of dashes with attributions, see § Other uses for em dashes.) This below-quotation attribution style is intended for famous quotations and is unusual in articles because it may strike an inappropriate tone.

  7. Natural horn - Wikipedia

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    The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves). Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the natural horn evolved as a separation from the trumpet by widening the bell and lengthening the tubes. [ 1 ]

  8. French horn in jazz - Wikipedia

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    While the French horn is primarily used in classical music pieces, in the mid-20th century it broke into the jazz world. While the instrument remains relatively rare, the role of the French horn in jazz has developed from its beginnings in the 1940s through to the 2010s. Note that the expression "horns" in jazz is often used colloquially to ...

  9. List of compositions for harp - Wikipedia

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    Music For Harp and Three Brass Instruments (trumpet, trombone, & French horn) Music for Nicanor (harp, flute, clarinet & string quartet) Commentaires sentimentaux (flute, viola and harp) Two Sacred Songs (soprano, violin, cello, harp & organ) Ancient Walls (trombone & harp) Ancient Walls (horn & harp) Trio in One Movement nr. 2 (2 French horns ...