Jubilee (biblical) it was thought that the English term "Jubilee" derives from the Hebrew term "yobel" (via Latin ""), which in turn derives from "yobhel", meaning "ram"; the Jubilee year was announced by a blast on a shofar, an instrument made from a ram's horn, during that year's Yom Kippur. An alternative etymology notes that the Latin verb "iūbilō", "shout for joy," predates the Vulgate, and proposes that instead the Latin "jubilo" (meaning "shout"), as well as Middle Irish "ilach" (victory cry), New English "yowl", and Ancient Greek "iuzo" (ἰύζω: shout), derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*yu-" (shout for joy). In this
Transposing instrument and B. The horn part is nevertheless transposed uniformly in F (and indeed seldom if ever specifies whether a double or single horn is to be used), with the player deciding when to switch from one side of the instrument to the other. Single B horns also normally read from parts transposed in F. In general, for these instruments there is some reason to consider a certain pitch the "home" note of an instrument, and that pitch is usually written as C for that instrument. The concert pitch of that note is what determines how we refer to the transposition