corno di bassetto

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian

Noun

corno di bassetto (plural corni di bassetto)

1. (music) A tenor clarinet, or basset horn.
2. (music) A certain organ stop.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corno di bassetto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)