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Italian name for the flugelhorn, and for the whole valved-bugle (saxhorn) family of Italian bands: flicorno soprano, contralto, tenore, baritono, basso.
The Italian name for the valved bugle family of Italian bands, specified by size — flicorno soprano (the flugelhorn in B♭), contralto, tenore, baritono, basso. Read the size word printed with the name: it decides both the range and the transposition of the part.
Also spelled: Flügelhörner
The flicorni have wide, conical bores and a mellow, round tone, softer-edged than trumpets or trombones; they are the core of the Italian wind band. In orchestral music they appear mainly as the flugelhorn or as special color — Respighi’s Pines of Rome calls for offstage flicorni to sound the Roman buccine. If you write for them, name the size and expect to explain the instrument to players outside Italy.
Flicorno 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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