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Haydn's horn concerto, Mozart's four horn concertos, and Beethoven's sonata for horn and piano were all written for natural horn, although they're usually played today on valve horn.
The first orchestral music calling specifically for valve horns dates from 1835, and the first important solo work for valve horn was Robert Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, written in 1849.
Among the chamber music works that feature the French horn, the two best known and best loved are undoubtedly the Mozart Horn Quintet (1782) and the Brahms Horn Trio (trio for horn, violin, and piano, 1865).
Other major works for solo horn include the two concertos for horn and orchestra by Richard Strauss (the first from 1883, the second from 1942), and Benjamin Britten's Serenade for tenor (voice), horn, and strings (1943).
The animals were hunted to satisfy the demand for horn, which was used to fashion handles for ceremonial Yemeni daggers and as an ingredient to reduce fever in oriental medicine (not as an aphrodisiac, despite popular belief).
Growing Asian demand for rhino horn, believed to be a remedy for various illness including cancer, is thought to be behind the recent spike in rhino killings, even though there is no scientific evidence for its reputed medicinal properties.
Townspeople gathered along its docks waiting for the horn to sound, local officials said.
Vietnam was the "top destination for rhino horn", fuelling a poaching crisis in South Africa, the report said.
However, the number has soared as buyers in Asia now pay the U.S. street value of cocaine for rhino horn.
Matt Bryden is the director for the Horn of Africa of the International Crisis Group, and he joins us from Johannesburg, South Africa.
"The hunters were a front for our decision to export rhino horn for trade and not for trophies, " he said in a statement to the Johannesburg court.
The market for pro-horn signs is as vibrant as ever, says Tilak Raj Dhir, who has been painting "Blow Horn" and "Horn Please" signs for half a century.
Adolph Sax, who lived in Belgium with his instrument-making family, made the first one in the 1800s, and it took a long time for the horn to get any respect at all.
Brett Dallas, Terry Newton, Robinson and Australian Test centre Steve Renouf scored second-half tries to complete the demolition job, with the Sharks saving some face courtesy of touchdowns for Richard Horn and Adam Maher.
It was for Terry Horn, whose home in Broad Channel, an island community in Queens, was flooded with 51 inches of water on its first floor as his son scrambled upstairs with the family's dogs at the height of the storm.
If the trade were legal, Campfire Zimbabwe says, it would give power to countries with rhinos to set appropriate conditions to the sale - for example insisting that the horn not be used for medicinal purposes or perhaps to get clarity on what markets use the horns.
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"Apple doesn't expect you to buy a 128GB iPad, not unless you're a professional-grade buyer, like an architect or a supervillain, " writes Leslie Horn for Gizmodo.
" "There's more clarity than in a horn, " said Jeff Fair, principal horn for the Seattle Opera, whose Stephen Wadsworth "Ring" returns in August, "but more resonance and darker sounds than in the trumpet.
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Large ensemble writing for a five-horn array is akin to devising plays in a spread offense.
If you straightened out all the tubing on a French horn, for example, it would be about seventeen feet long.
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During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union, jockeying for influence on the Horn of Africa, poured weapons into Somalia and Ethiopia.
He realized the reward was better for him than the horn you couldn't take it to a pawn shop or find a musician who wouldn't recognize it.
Long prized in South-East Asia for its supposed medicinal and aphrodisiac vim, rhino horn is now being peddled as a cure for cancer too.
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