English Horn

Many composers have been inspired to write for the cor anglais when they wish to evoke the countryside in their music. This use reflects its ancestry as a descendant of the tenor shawm. Berlioz uses the cor anglais and the oboe for this effect in the opening of the third movement of his Symphonie fantastique, which is titled 'Scene in the Fields'. The solo begins with the cor anglais and portraRead moreys two shepherds piping tunes across the fields to each other.