Author: hautbois
Date: 2007-01-02 12:11
The oboe da caccia evolved into the instrument known as the Cor Anglais or English Horn. It had itself evolved from a straight alto Pommer ("Pommer" being a name for the early anscestor of the oboe family), and, for convenience of holding and fingering, evolved into a curved form. The inconvenience of constructing the angled instrument led makers to return to the straight form. My source, C.S Terry, in "Bach's Orchestra" (1958 edition) postulates that the name "english horn" derived either from the physical resemblance of the curved instrument to an english hunting horn, or from a misunderstanding of "angled" as "anglais", which translates to "english". Also, per Terry, the range of Bach's oboe da caccia was f-g''.
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