• Zozano@lemy.lol
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    1 month ago

    How does Africa/Burler have a horn?

    Is it referring to the Toto song?

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      1 month ago
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      The Horn of Africa is the name for the peninsula occupied largely by Somalia & Somaliland.

      A bugle is a brass instrument related to the trumpet. You wouldn’t call it a horn in an orchestral context, but in other contexts it could be. In jazz and popular music, any woodwind or brass would be part of the “horn section”. And in a historical military context any smallish roundish brass instrument could be a horn, it just needs to perform a signalling function.