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Flugelhorn (English name).
Labels the flugelhorn, usually in B♭, written in treble clef and sounding a whole step lower — the same transposition as the B-flat trumpet. German scores print Flügelhorn, Italian flicorno soprano, French bugle.
Also spelled: Fluegelhorn
A wide-bored bugle with a dark, soft, velvety tone, less brilliant than the trumpet or cornet and at its best in lyrical, legato lines in the middle register. It is standard in brass bands and jazz, and appears in a few orchestral scores, such as Vaughan Williams’s Ninth Symphony. Trumpeters usually double it; give them time to change, and do not ask it to cut through a full tutti.
Flugelhorn 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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