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and I think we have that up there on our list of terms.
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Is the English horn from England and is it a horn?
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No.
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It's actually from France and Germany and it's a woodwind instrument.
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It's not a brass instrument at all.
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It's kind of a low or tenor oboe.
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So it's a kind of oboe in a tenor range but it has a
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beautiful, rich quality to it, a somewhat nostalgic quality.
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Arguably, the most famous English horn passage is the one
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that you're about to hear, which comes from the slow
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movement of Dvorak's "New World Symphony"
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which, as you might suspect,