Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bugle with valves, similar to the cornet but having a wider bore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hunting-horn.
- noun A kind of bugle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore, and having three valves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
brass instrument resembling acornet but with a wider, conicalbore , and usually with threevalves , in the same B-flatpitch as manytrumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. Abugle with valves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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David Brandom offered a beautifully airy soprano saxophone solo and trumpeter extraordinaire Marvin Stamm offered an impeccably flawless solo of his own on flugelhorn.
Ralph A. Miriello: Opening Night for the Westchester Jazz Orchestra With Special Guest Joe Lovano Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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Mr. Stamm was again featured on a moving flugelhorn solo.
Ralph A. Miriello: Opening Night for the Westchester Jazz Orchestra With Special Guest Joe Lovano Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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Foremost perhaps is the gorgeous trumpet sections by downtown mainstay Frank London, though Rich Stein's percussion and Albert Leusink's mournful flugelhorn sound fantastic.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Songs of Wonder and Planetary Grooves Derek Beres 2011
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David Brandom offered a beautifully airy soprano saxophone solo and trumpeter extraordinaire Marvin Stamm offered an impeccably flawless solo of his own on flugelhorn.
Ralph A. Miriello: Opening Night for the Westchester Jazz Orchestra With Special Guest Joe Lovano Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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The displays on the four walls and the exhibits in the center are all built around various topics, like "Counterculture and Assimilation," which offers Miles Davis's inscribed flugelhorn, Dizzy Gillespie's bejeweled fez and a well-worn, road-decorated steamer trunk from Pearl Bailey; elsewhere, there's Count Basie's sporty yachting cap.
No Myth: The Apollo's Power Will Friedwald 2011
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Foremost perhaps is the gorgeous trumpet sections by downtown mainstay Frank London, though Rich Stein's percussion and Albert Leusink's mournful flugelhorn sound fantastic.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Songs of Wonder and Planetary Grooves Derek Beres 2011
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Kenny Wheeler, the expat Canadian trumpeter and jazz composer, was 82 last week – but this big band session featuring new themes and plenty of flugelhorn improvising, was recorded only a few months ago.
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A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon.
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Comba N3, with its pensive flugelhorn and delicate alto-sax passages, and the lovely Old Ballad a Wheeler staple are among the highlights of another essential item for followers of Britain's most reluctant jazz hero.
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Mr. Stamm was again featured on a moving flugelhorn solo.
Ralph A. Miriello: Opening Night for the Westchester Jazz Orchestra With Special Guest Joe Lovano Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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