cor

Definition of the French term cor in music:

French horn
horn

Language

French

Singular

cor

Plural

cors

Abbreviation

C.

French musical terms that include cor:

cor à clefs – keyed bugle
cor à cylindres – valve horn
cor à main – natural horn
cor à pistons – valve horn
cor anglais – English horn (American English), cor anglais (Brit...
cor chromatique – valve horn
cor chromatique en Fa – valve horn in F
cor d'amour – organ reed stop usually of 8' pitch with a warm to...
cor d'harmonie – French horn
cor d'orchestre – orchestral horn (type of natural horn used in Clas...
cor de basset – basset horn...
cor de chamois – gemshorn (wind instrument)...
cor de chasse – hunting horn...
cor de nuit – organ flue stop usually of 8' pitch with a soft to...
cor de postillon – post horn
cor de signal – bugle
cor de vache – steerhorn
cor des Alpes – alphorn
cor en Fa – French horn in F
cor en Mi – French horn in E
cor en Mi♭ – French horn in E-flat
cor en Ré – French horn in D
cor en Ré♭ – French horn in D-flat
cor en Si♭ – French horn in B-flat
cor en Si♭ grave – French horn in B-flat basso (pitched an octave low...
cor en Sol – French horn in G
cor en Ut – French horn in C
cor naturel – natural horn
cor omnitonique – omnitonic horn (wind instrument of the natural hor...
cor postal – post horn
cor simple – natural horn
cor ténor – alto horn (American English), tenor horn (British ...
cor viennois – Vienna horn
méthode de cor – French horn method (method for playing the French ...
méthode de cor d'harmonie – French horn method (method for playing the French ...
pour cor et orchestre – for horn and orchestra
pour cor et piano – for horn and piano
premier cor – first horn
prenant le cor anglais – taking the English horn
prendre le cor anglais – to take the English horn, to pick up the English h...
prenez le cor anglais – take the English horn, pick up the English horn
ton de cor – horn crook

Music scores that include cor:

Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923) Page 1
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (1874) Page 1
Darius Milhaud: La création du monde (1922‑1923) Page 1
Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco (1841) Page 2
Hector Berlioz: Grande messe des morts (1837) Page 1
Hector Berlioz: Vox populi (1849) Page 1
Jacques Ibert: Escales (1920‑1922) Page 1
Léo Delibes: Lakmé (1883) Page 1
Maurice Ravel: Boléro (1928) Page 1

French musical terms related to cor:

bugle – flugelhorn in B-flat...
clairon – bugle...
clarino – clarion (high-pitched trumpet used in the Middle A...
euphonium – euphonium (brass instrument)
klaxon – vehicle horn
kuhlohorn – kuhlohorn
lur – lur
lure – lur
ophicléide – ophicleide (family of keyed brass instruments)...
piston – cornet...
saxhorn – saxhorn (family of valved brass instruments)
soubassophone – sousaphone
sousaphone – sousaphone
trombone – trombone...
trompe – horn...
trompette – trumpet...
tuba – tuba

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