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German Tenorhorn: the B-flat tenor-baritone bugle-family brass of German bands, used by Mahler in his Seventh Symphony; not the British brass-band tenor horn, which is the E-flat alto horn.
Labels the German Tenorhorn, an oval or upright valved brass instrument in B-flat. Notation varies — treble clef transposing or bass clef at pitch — so check the clef and the key. Its best-known orchestral appearance is in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony. Caution: the British brass-band “tenor horn” is the E-flat alto horn, a different instrument.
Also spelled: Tenorhörner
The German Tenorhorn is a baritone-range bugle-family instrument in B-flat, mellow and slightly veiled, standard in German and Czech wind bands. Mahler gave it the opening solo of his Seventh Symphony, now usually played on euphonium or baritone horn. In a score, say exactly which instrument you mean, because English and German usage disagree, and suggest a substitute.
Tenorhorn 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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