Tenor Tuba

What is it?

A conical-bore B♭ brass instrument in the tenor–baritone range — and the tangle of names (baritone, tenor tuba, saxhorn) that surround it.

Does the euphonium play in orchestras

Rarely, and almost always under the name 'tenor tuba' for a handful of specific scores — Holst, Strauss, Wagner, Ravel. There's no permanent orchestral euphonium chair; it's called in as needed.

What is a tenor tuba

'Tenor tuba' is what orchestral scores call the euphonium. When Holst, Strauss, or Wagner wrote for tenor tuba, a euphonium is what plays it — read in concert-pitch bass or tenor clef.

Don Quixote — tenor tuba part

The Planets — tenor tuba part