Baritone horn

Baritone horn
Brass instrument
Other names
Classification Wind, brass, aerophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification423.232
(Valved aerophone sounded by lip vibration)
Playing range
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Baritone horn in B♭ tessitura is E1 to B♭4. In treble clef band music, sounds a major ninth lower than written. Can reach higher, and lower to C1 with a fourth valve.[1][verification needed]
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The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family.[2] It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the smaller and higher pitched flugelhorn and tenor horn, but it has a narrower bore compared to the similarly pitched euphonium. It uses a wide-rimmed cup mouthpiece like that of its peers, the trombone and euphonium. Like the trombone and the euphonium, the baritone horn can be considered either a transposing or non-transposing instrument.

In the UK, the baritone horn is part of the standardised instrumentation of brass bands. In concert band music, there is often a part marked baritone, but these parts are most commonly intended for, and played on, the euphonium. A baritone can also play music written for a trombone due to similarities in timbre and range.

  1. ^ Herbert, Trevor, ed. (2019). "Appendix 2: The Ranges of Labrosones". The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 489. doi:10.1017/9781316841273. ISBN 978-1-316-63185-0. OCLC 1038492212. OL 34730943M. Wikidata Q114571908.
  2. ^ Robert Donington, "The Instruments of Music", (pp. 113ff The Family of Bugles) 2nd ed., Methuen, London, 1962