Cor Anglais

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can you tell me about it ?

― anthony, Monday, 15 March 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds really pretty sometimes

― !!!! (amateurist), Monday, 15 March 2004 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

like what ?

― anthony, Monday, 15 March 2004 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

it's like a bassier oboe, but not quite a bassoon

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Used a lot by these folks:

http://theacf.com/dreamac/mm/300da.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

she played it on an Everything but the girl album too

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a nice double-reeded woodwind intsrument. Easier to play than the oboe (or 'hautbois' for non-corruption fans) because you don't need such a fierce emboucher. Not quite sure why it's called the English Horn though, although we are very fond of it over here. I mean, I'd imagine an English Horn to be one of them ones used in hunting and that.

It's in A, I think. There's another instrument between the oboe and the cor in pitch, called the oboe d'amour, which sounds lovely. The oboe can be a little shrill for me sometimes, but then I had to put up with listening to my sister learn to play it for years.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 15 March 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I played the oboe for many years (my only extra-curricular stuff in school was the band). I even got to perform at Expo 86 in Vancouver with my high school band! It was a source of much frustratsion becasue:
1. It was difficult to keep in tune, and everyone else was supposed to tune to me!
2. I was the oddball in our orchestra (the only reason I played it was because I missed the first class when instruments were assigned. All the boys picked cool stuff like trumpets and saxes, and I was in the front row with all the girls playing flute.)
3. My reeds cost about 20x as much as the ones for clarinet or sax.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cor Anglais sound really good but kind of out-of-place and otherworldly at the same time, possibly why it's used sparingly... the opening of the third movement of Symphonie Fantastique is all call-and-response cor anglais/oboe stuff, is it not?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

And the nicer versions of Ravel's 'Bolero' use the Cor Anglais and not the oboe...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

And the sexy main theme in Rodrigo's Concierto de Orange Juice, of course. Cor! Anglais, say I.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sid James is the leading example of the Cor Anglais.

― omg, Monday, 15 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer Creme Anglais

― chris (chris), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The name is actually a corruption of the French for angled, not English, horn.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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