0 a musical instrument like an oboe but with a lower sound
In this passage, the cor anglais and the two percussion players act without any concomitant electroacoustic texture.
The basses underpin a marvellous and long duet between the pianist and cor anglais, which gives way to the one extended solo for the piano, unaccompanied.
The recapitulation sees a dissonant version of the fate motif displaced by a cor anglais solo which meanders towards a restatement of the second subject.
Today, the taille is rare outside period ensembles, and a cor anglais is commonly substituted in performance.
Reeds used to play the cor anglais are similar to those used for an oboe, consisting of a piece of cane folded in two.
Music for the cor anglais is thus written a perfect fifth higher than the instrument actually sounds.
He also wrote, directed and even performed in advertising jingles, playing celesta, oboe, cor anglais or whatever was required.
New instruments cost approximately 6,500 at 2008 prices, comparable to the cost of a new cor anglais.