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German name for the valved bugle family (Bügelhörner); the soprano member, the flugelhorn, is usually printed Flügelhorn.
Bügelhorn (plural Bügelhörner) is the German family name for the valved bugles; the specific soprano instrument, the flugelhorn in B-flat, is usually printed Flügelhorn. Flugelhorn parts are written in treble clef, sounding a whole step lower. In band scores the size word or key printed with the name identifies the instrument.
Also spelled: Buegelhorn, Bügelhörner, Flügelhorn
Bugle-family instruments have a wide, conical bore and a soft, round, dark tone, warmer and less incisive than the trumpet’s. The flugelhorn is standard in German and Austrian wind bands and in jazz, and appears occasionally in orchestral scores, such as Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony and Stravinsky’s Threni. Give it lyrical, legato lines in the middle register; it will not cut like a trumpet.
Bügelhorn is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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