Horn

Horn or Horns may refer to:

• Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals (that of a rhinoceros) ; source of most other uses below
• Horn, see keratin, the substance that, apart from other functions, is the main component of the tissue that sheaths the bony core of horns and hoofs of various animals

Audio

• Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound
• Horn (album), an album by Pharaoh Overlord
• Horn loudspeaker
• Vehicle horn
• Ear trumpet

Musical instruments

• Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind instruments

• Animal horn used as an instrument, e.g. Swedish cowhorn, Shofar, Vuvuzela
• Long straight instruments like Alphorn, Steerhorn, Tibetan horn
• Coiled brass instruments:

• Natural horn, Post horn and their derivatives:

• French horn, German horn and Vienna horn ("horn" in classical music)

• The Saxhorn, including

Baritone horn in B♭, Alto horn in E♭, and Flugel horn in B♭(soprano)

• In American popular music, "horn" indicates any wind instrument, but most often the saxophone ^[1]
• Other horn shaped instruments include:

• Basset horn, a clarinet pitched in F (less often in G)
• Crumhorn, a Renaissance capped-reed instrument
• English horn, an oboe pitched in F
• Hornpipe (instrument), a single-reed instrument

Literature

• Horns (novel), a dark fantasy novel written in 2010 by Joe Hill
  • Horns (film), a 2013 film adaptation of Hill's novel
• the Horn of Valere, a fictional horn in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, which calls heroes back from the grave
• Freyja, also known as Hörn, a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death
• Gjallarhorn, the sounding horn or ringing horn of the god Heimdall, used to announce Ragnarok
• Horn of Gondor, a horn carried by Boromir, son of the Steward of Gondor, in the Lord of the Rings books and films
• Hornbook, a primer for study
• The Horn Book Magazine, a bimonthly periodical about literature for children and young adults

People

Places

• Cape Horn, the southernmost point of the continent of South America named (indirectly) after the Dutch town of Hoorn
  • Cabo de Hornos, Chile, a Chilean commune located near Cape Horn
• Golden Horn, a historic inlet of the Bosphorus dividing the city of Istanbul
• Horn (district), a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria
• Horn of Africa, a peninsula in Northeast Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea; comprises Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia
• Horn, Austria, a small town in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria, Austria and the capital of the Horn District
• Horn, Germany, a municipality in the district of Rhein-Hunsrück in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Horn, Hamburg, a quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany
• Horn, Netherlands, a town in the Dutch province of Limburg, and a separate municipality until 1991
• Horn, Oppland, a ferry docking point on the east side of lake Randsfjorden, Norway
• Horn, Rutland, a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England
• Horn, Sweden, a locality situated in Kinda Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden
• Horn, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Arbon in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland, an exclave of Thurgau
• Horn, Nebraska, a community in the United States
• Horn Island, Queensland, one of the Torres Strait Islands
• Hoorn, a municipality in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands
• Horn River, a river in the Northwest Territories, Canada
• Horn (Schwarzbach), a river in eastern France and southwestern Germany

Slang

• Corna, also called the "devil horns", a hand gesture with a vulgar meaning in Mediterranean countries, also used in heavy metal music
• Telephone, also known as "the horn", especially among soldiers and police officers
• Texas Longhorns, the sports teams of the University of Texas in Austin; sometimes shortened to "Horns"
  • Hook 'em Horns, a hand gesture expressing support for the above teams
• Cuckolds are sometimes described as having grown "horns"
• Greenhorn, sometimes shortened to "'horn", slang for newbie or novice

Other uses

• Drinking horn, an animal horn that has been used as a drinking vessel in various cultures since antiquity
• Cream horn, a pastry made with flaky or puff pastry, and whipped cream. Also can be done with meringue and it is called meringue horn.
• Gabriel's Horn, a geometric figure that has infinite surface area but encloses a finite volume
• Golden Horns of Gallehus, two horns made of sheet gold discovered in Gallehus, Denmark, and dating to the early 5th century
• Horn (Chinese constellation), part of the European constellation Virgo
• Horn (diacritic), a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as o or u is to be pronounced unrounded
• Horn of Plenty (disambiguation), also known as Cornucopia and the Horn of Amalthea, a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC
• Horn Cable Television, a television channel in Somalia
• Italian horn, an Italian amulet of good luck used to protect the wearer from the evil-eye curse
• The knob-like appendage attached to the pommel of a saddle
• Horn timber, a slanted timber extension of the keel for mounting a counter transom
• Horn antenna, a type of antenna shaped like a horn and also called "horn"
• Glacial horn, a pyramid-shaped peak sculpted by glacial erosion
• Control horn, a device that helps control the control surfaces of an aircraft
• Horn clause, a type of logical formula named after the logician Alfred Horn
• Horn (video game), a mobile game developed by Phosphor Games Studio

See also

• All pages with titles containing horn

References

1. Anon. 2013. "Horn (ii)". Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, Oxford Music Online (11 February; accessed 21 April 2016).