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B♭ alto — up a perfect fourth. A — up a major third. G — up a major second. E — down a minor second. E♭ — down a major second (used for horn on pitches with multiple sharps until Richard Strauss) D — down a minor third. C — down a perfect fourth. B♭ basso — down a perfect fifth. Some less common transpositions include:
Flutter-tonguing is a wind instrument tonguing technique in which performers flutter their tongue to make a characteristic "FrrrrrFrrrrr" sound. The effect varies according to the instrument and at what volume it is played, ranging from cooing sounds on a recorder to an effect similar to the growls used by jazz musicians. Bassoon flutter-tonguing.
Horn Concertos (Mozart) The four Horn Concertos by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart were written for his friend Joseph Leutgeb, whom he had known since childhood. Leutgeb was a skilled player, and the works are difficult to perform on the natural horn of the period, requiring lip trills, much hand-stopping, and rapid tonguing. [1]
Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetan horn or dungchen (Tibetan: དུང་ཆེན།, Wylie: dung chen, ZYPY: tungqên; Mongolian: hiidiin buree; Chinese: 筒欽; pinyin: tǒng qīn) is a long trumpet or horn used in Tibetan Buddhist and Mongolian buddhist ceremonies. It is the most widely used instrument in Tibetan Buddhist culture.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 417 was completed in 1783. The concerto is scored for solo horn and an orchestra of two oboes, two horns, and strings. This is one of two horn concertos of Mozart to omit bassoons. [1] It is also one of Mozart's two horn concertos to have ripieno horns (horns included in the ...
Concerto for 2 Horns in G major, GWV 332. Anton Joseph Hampel. Concerto in D for horn, 2 violins, viola and basso. Georg Friedrich Händel. Concerto a due cori No. 2 in F major, HWV 333. Concerto a due cori No. 3 in F, HWV 334. Aria in F major HWV 410, for 2 horns, 2 oboes and bassoon. Johann David Heinichen.
Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn) is a series of songs with music by Gustav Mahler, set either for voice and piano, or for voice and orchestra, based on texts of German folk poems chosen from a collection of the same name assembled by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano and published by them, in heavily redacted form, between 1805 and 1808.
This fairly common extended technique involves bowing the instrument on the afterlength, the short length of string behind the bridge. The tone is very high and squeaky. 3rd bridge is a term more used on electric guitars or prepared guitars, but is the same technique. Playing the instrument at a string part behind the bridge causes the opposed ...