Cor anglais

Cor anglais [U., not cor anglé] (Fr.) (Ger.: englisches Horn; It.: corno inglese), 1. neither a horn nor English, but an oboe pitched in F, a 5th below the ordinary oboe. Nowadays built in straight form, terminating with a bulb bell having a relatively small opening, and with keywork and fingering system of the oboe. The double reed is carried on a bent metal crook. Around 1760 the term corno inglese started appearing in Viennese scores; the term has been matched with preserved late-18th-c…