Musical Terms/Symbols
Con sordino means this in English.
With mute.
This German composer and child prodigy wrote four concertos for the horn.
Mozart
Gil Evans orchestrated the music for the album Porgy and Bess, which featured this legendary trumpet player.
Miles Davis
The number of movements in a traditional classical concerto.
3
Concert B-flat is this in horn pitch
F
Speeding up and slowing down of tempo (push and pull.)
These are predecessors of the French horn.
Acceptable answers: natural horn, alphorn, hunting horn.
This horn player was the first jazz hornist to release solo albums, sextet albums, and is still honored today with festivals and concerts in his name.
Julius Watkins
Sarah Willis plays horn in this famous orchestra.
Berlin Philharmonic
Concert A is this note for horn.
E
Gestopft is a german term for this english word.
Stopped.
The natural horn's slides changed the key of the instrument, and go by this name.
Crooks.
This term, coined by Gunther Schuller, refers to the combination of classical and jazz into a genre influenced by both styles.
Third Stream
Bernhard Scully used to play horn in this famous brass quintet.
The Canadian Brass
Concert D is this note for horn.
A
A plus sign over or under a note means this.
Stopped horn.
In 1815, this addition to the horn made the instrument chromatic.
Valves.
George Gershwin wrote this opera that introduced jazz style to the concert hall in the 1930s.
Porgy and Bess
Bassoonist
Concert C is this note for Horn
G
What does the French word bouche mean?
Stopped
This German composer wrote tone poems for orchestra, greatly featuring the horn. Some of his pieces include Don Juan and Horn Concerto No. 1.
Richard Strauss
This University of Michigan horn professor has his own solo jazz albums out, one of which is named "Excerpt This!"
Adam Unsworth
A brass quintet is usually comprised of a trumpet player, hornist, trombonist, tuba player, and...
Concert B is this note for horn
F-sharp