A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/English Horn

by William H. Stone

ENGLISH HORN. The tenor oboe in F, intermediate between the ordinary oboe and the bassoon. It seems in great measure to have superseded an older instrument, the Corno di caccia, which occurs in the scores of Bach, and which was curved back on itself like a bassoon, or at an obtuse angle. [See Cor Anglais.]

[ W. H. S. ]