Describe the history of horn playing and the physical development of the instrument from 1750-today. The natural horn was the ancient horn of the double horn, usually a natural horn used in hunting. Prior to the Classical period, the natural horn had to use the right hand and the lips to control the note and pitch. The hunting horn was used for nobles when they went to hunt. The hunting horn changed the shape slightly because the hunting horn players wanted to carry their natural horn on their back. The Horn was originally from England and gradually developed in Germany. The original horn in Germany was the natural horn. The natural horn players used the right hand to control notes. Today, the natural horn is still popular in Germany and …show more content…
Hence, different countries have different type of horns. In the classical period, horn changed the notes by right hand. This way made playing horn more hard and unstable. However, when the valved horn came out, at first time, composers of the classical period still did not like the sound of this new style horn. They thought the natural horn could make the sound more pure and loud. Like the beginning of the “Overture to Der Freischutz” by Carl Maria von Weber, he still used the four natural horns to describe the forest. In 1863, Brahms composed the “ Trio, op.40 for Horn, Violin and Piano”. In this piece, he wrote the request that the horn part be played on the valveless horn. Because the horn with valves improved, horn became more stable and people accepted this style little by little. Composers wrote more pieces for horn because horn was able to play more hard techniques and more registers. Robert Schumann was the innovator o the valve horn. In 1849, he composed two pieces for valve horn, “ Adagio and Allegro” for horn and piano and “ Koncertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra”. Using the natural horn maybe can make more pure and loud sound, but cannot paly very fast because many notes need to change by right