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Oboe   /ˈoʊboʊ/   Listen
Oboe

noun
1.
A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece.  Synonyms: hautbois, hautboy.



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"Oboe" Quotes from Famous Books



... pretended to have received the model of that commonwealth from the oracle of Apollo at Delphos, the words whereof are thus recorded by Plutarch in the life of that famous legislator: "When thou shalt have divided the people into tribes (which were six) and oboe (which were five in every tribe), thou shalt constitute the Senate, consisting, with the two Kings, of thirty councillors, who, according as occasion requires, shall cause the congregation to be assembled between the bridge and the river Gnacion, where the Senate ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington

... Intermezzo, and the other American numbers we have played include David Stanley Smith's Second Quartet, and movements from quartets by Victor Kolar and Samuel Gardner. We are also going to revive Charles Martin Loeffler's Rhapsodies for viola, oboe and piano. ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens

... to know how to end," said Alexander, "but I understand you. I knew a girl who loved the oboe, perhaps ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger

... around knew Daddy Whitehead and the fiddle from which he could extract the most enticing music boys and girls had ever danced to; while his assistants, Mose Coffin and Abe Skinner were fairly good with the violoncello and oboe, making a good combination capable of playing up-to-date dances, as well as others known to the fathers and mothers ...
— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson

... heard, and no more than a proposition of Euclid, when it is written. It is wholly useless, to the student no less than to the general reader, to write about music in the style of the programmes for which we pay sixpence at the concerts. "Repeated by flute and oboe, with accompaniment for clarionet (in triplets) and strings pizzicato, and then worked up by the full orchestra, this melody is eventually allotted to the 'cellos, its accompaniment now taking the form of chromatic passages," and so forth. Not ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons



Words linked to "Oboe" :   shawm, heckelphone, musette pipe, double-reed instrument, double reed, oboist



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