This is what gives such amazing charm to the long colloquy between the flute, the oboe and the clarinets, which always surprises and arouses the listener, in the andante of the same symphony.
Berlioz must have heard thatoboe as well as I, for I rediscovered it in the "Ride to Hell" in his La Damnation de Faust.
No one will induce me to believe this passage [Illustration: musical notation] is difficult to play on the oboe or clarinet, or that the flutes cannot play twenty-two bars of triplets in a rapid tempo.
The French oboe players, he continued, could bring out these high notes better, because they had different and finer mouthpieces; but with these mouthpieces the middle and lower notes suffered.
The timbre of her voice was more like the oboe than the flute, and was penetrated by such indescribable beauty, warmth, and passion, that everyone who heard it was fascinated and carried away.
In the Andante the passages leading to the second theme are extremely difficult (where oboe and clarinet, and the second time flute and clarinet, have triplets of semi-quavers).
Defn: A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
A fife; also, a rude kind of oboeor a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
A description of Malzel's panharmonicon before the addition of the clarinet and oboe stops with free reeds is to be found in the Allg.
On returning to Halle Handel became a pupil of Zachau, the cathedral organist, who gave him a thorough training as a composer and as a performer on keyed instruments, the oboe and the violin.
He returned to Hanover at the close of the opera season, and composed a good deal of vocal chamber music for the princess Caroline, the step-daughter of the elector, besides the instrumental works known to us as the oboe concertos.
Though it grows out of the main theme, yet the change is clear in a return to the subject, now in true variation, where the saxophone has the longer notes and the clarinet and oboe sing in concert.
The oboe has a kind of arioso phrase with trilling of flutes and clarinets, answered in trumpets and harp.
The ending is in long notes of solo oboe and first violins.
The phrase of oboe proves to be the main song, in full extended periods, reaching a climax with all the voices.
To tremolo of violas the cellos hold a tenor of descending melody over a rude rumbling phrase of the basses of wood and strings, while the oboe sings in the treble an expressive answer of ascending notes.
Davison, "Mendelssohn was a long time uncertain whether he should add the oboe part, or limit the score to the string quartet.
And Cooke could not complain that the composer had not given him any oboe solos, after he had played the beautiful oboe obbligato in "For the mountains shall depart," which was doubtless written by Mendelssohn expressly for Cooke.
The story that the holding C's for the oboe in No.
Did the wind range Over the trembling string; Into flute and oboe pouring Solemn music; sinking, soaring Low to high, Up and down the sky?
One of the noblest utterances of the oboe is the melody of the funeral march in Beethoven's "Heroic" symphony, in which its tenderness has beautiful play.
Two narrow blades of cane are fitted closely together, and fastened with silk on a small metal tube extending from the upper end of the instrument in the case of the oboe and English horn, from the side in the case of the bassoon.
Still the fact remains that the native voice of the instrument, though sweet, is expressionless compared with that of the oboe or clarinet.
The grave voice of theoboe is heard from the bassoon (Plate VI.
The flute or pipe of the Greeks and Romans was only distantly related to the true flute, but was the ancestor of its orchestral companions, the oboe and clarinet.
It is the timid oboe that sounds the A for the orchestra to tune by.
There are few players on the English horn in this country, and it might be set down as a rule that outside of New York, Boston, and Chicago, the English horn parts are played by the oboe in America.
The oboe or hautboy, English horn, and the bassoon have what are called double reeds.
He was originally oboe player in the service of Holland.
This, however, proves only that the name was not familiar in France, where the oboe of the same pitch was called haute-contre de hautbois.
The bending of the tube and the development of the cor anglais as solo instrument originated in Germany, unless the oboe da caccia was identical with the cor anglais, in which case Italy would be the country of origin.
It is not a horn, but bears the same relation to the oboe as the basset horn does to the clarinet.
Played softly, the flute will predominate in the low, the oboe in the upper register.
If this rule is ignored an unnatural effect will be produced, as when the clarinet in its upper range replies to the oboe in the lower compass etc.
The relationship which has been shown to exist between stopped horns and oboe or Eng.
The English horn, or alto oboe (oboe in F) is similar in tone to the ordinary oboe, the listless, dreamy quality of its timbre being sweet in the extreme.
The dark, nasal tone of the oboe will prevail in the low register, the bright, "chest" quality of the clarinet in the high compass.
Stopped and muted notes in horns and trumpets are similar in quality to the oboe and Eng.
Deviation from the natural order, such as placing the bassoon above the clarinet or oboe, the clarinet above the oboe or flute etc.
The flute predominates in the low register, the oboe in the middle, and the clarinet in the high compass.
Resonance is greatly reduced, the silvery tone of the instrument so lost and a timbre resembling that of the oboe and Eng.
The lowest notes on the bassoon, [Music: B1] and on the oboe and Eng.
Stopped or muted notes in trumpets and horns resemble the oboe and Eng.
But more probably it was one of the older reed instruments of the oboe family, the pommer or possibly a schalmei.
The ear of the eighteenth century preferred human voices whose timbre approached closest to the violin, the oboe or the 'cello, and considered that such were peculiarly fitted for lyric and dramatic expression.
The violins keep up a broken triplet accompaniment, trombones entering on the A major chord, oboe lightly breathing the principal motive (No.
Tristan is in a reverie, scarcely conscious of what is going on around him; the love-motive once in the oboe shows how his thoughts are occupied.
Its fundamental form is that in which it appears in the second bar of the Prelude in the oboe (No.
A passage in chords for the piano alone leads to the more expressive second subject, heard in the oboe with a pizzicato accompaniment.
After rising to a climax, the interest shifts to the woodwinds, and a surprise modulation brings back the first subject, which, after a slight interruption by a recall of the middle section, picks up an oboe counterpoint in triplets.
The fundamental scale of the oboe is that of C, although the compass has been extended a tone to Bb [Notation: B3b.
Therefore the difference in pitch between the bassoon and the oboe is a twelfth.
Beginning in measure 90, the wondrous closing theme of the first part is sung by a solo violin, reinforced by oboe and horn.
After a final ff climax there begins, in measure 287, a series of beautiful entries pp of the closing theme for the clarinet, oboeand flute.
There are many characteristic touches in spite of the scanty means at disposal, as for instance, the mocking entry of the oboe at the words, "Ich hab' auch Verstand.
The oboe gives charming expression to the feelings which the jealous lovers scarcely dare to clothe in words.
In order to provide his friends, Ramm and Ritter, with a piece of brilliant execution, he made the oboe and bassoon accompany obbligato, and emulate the voice part.
The monaulos, a single pipe of Egyptian origin, which, by inference, we assume to have been played from the end by means of a reed, may have been the archetype of the oboe or clarinet.
This is exactly how a performer on a modern clarinet or oboe produces the higher harmonics of the instrument.
We may conclude that the archetype of the oboe with conical bore was not unknown to the Greeks; it was frequently used by the Etruscans and Romans, and appears on many has-reliefs, mural paintings and other monuments.
An English horn (oboe da caccia), eighteenth century; probably made in England.
An oboe of ivory, carved by Anciuti in Milan, beginning of the eighteenth century.
Several specimens of the bombardone, the predecessor of the bassoon; a dulcinum fagotto; two specimens of the cormorne, an oddly-shaped wind instrument belonging to the shalm or oboe family.
A French oboe of ebony, inlaid with ivory, tortoise-shell, and enriched with gold and precious stones; of the time of Louis XIII.
