NOUN
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
How To Use French horn In A Sentence
- Dad played the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet or cornet, and the French horn.
- Freelance musician (French hornist) from the Philadelphia, PA area. Joan E. Dowlin: Richard Cohen Is a Charlatan And a Sell Out!
- The musical Renaissance man has had, by his own accounting, seven often-simultaneous careers: As a French hornist, he got his first job with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at age 17 and performed on Miles Davis's seminal "Birth of the Cool" recordings. Man of Many Music Careers
- But they stipulated that there were to be no drums or even electronic simulations of drums, and no trumpets, although French horns, soprano saxes and electric violins were perfectly okay.
- Presently he called on his comrades to stop, and held with them a long palaver, in which the French horn seemed to be an objector, and the trombone an assenter, while the key-bugle didn't seem to care. Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn
- Take two trumpets, a French horn, a trombone and a tuba and you have a lot of brass!
- Also, sometimes when I'm listening, I get confused between clarinets and bassoons, and between French horns and trombones, so it's good to see the live performance.
- Could the French horn line be omitted for a few measures without disturbing the score's overall harmony and rhythmic flow?
- LYCEUM CHAMBER CONCERT, by French hornist Jay Chadwick and friends. 3 p.m., the Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., Alexandria and Arlington community events July 22-29, 2010
- Two string quartets are utilized, as are a pair of French horns, piccolo, bassoon, bassett horn, oboe and instruments usually associated with jazz.
