Flutes, oboes and bassoons, for example, may form a group capable of producing independent harmony, so can the clarinets, and the same is the case with the brass instruments.
The second subject is propounded by the oboes (in the rather unusual related key of the submediant).
The addition of the oboes gives it greater fulness and variety; but it is easy to detect that they are additions to a finished work.
The oboesand bassoons lead a two-part canon in octave, while the clarinets and horns are used as tutti parts.
Mozart has taken an extra sheet of paper, and has rearranged the original oboe parts, giving characteristic passages to the clarinets, others to the oboes alone, and frequently combining the two.
Footnote 50: An excellent effect is given by the alternations of the keys of E flat major and C major in the second theme, and the interchange of clarinets and oboes connected therewith.
Influenced, no doubt, by the performances of such compositions, Beethoven composed at this time two works for two oboes and English horn.
Violin (arrangement of Trio for Oboesand Bassoon)--I, 206.
It is repeated, this time leading to the key of E-flat where the oboes play it in a modified form.
Clarinets and oboes each take half of the chief melody.
Oboes pick it up in a slightly revised form and they and the first violins conclude it.
The above quoted melody appears in the Christmas Oratorio with brilliant orchestral accompaniment and interludes, three trumpets, drums and two oboes being used besides the strings and organ.
This accompaniment is used for all the succeeding chorales, and we may remark that the melody is given to the two flutes and two oboes as well as the first violins, that it may be made prominent.
The accompaniment is mainly intrusted to the stringed instruments, strengthened by oboes (on one occasion by two flutes) and horns, but only to fill in the harmonies.
As regards other wind instruments, we know that in 1757, "Oboes and German flutes were seldom heard in the cathedral, and the French horn, never.
Footnote 73: Leopold Mozart had ordered new oboes and bassoons from Dresden in a great hurry, when the election of an archbishop was imminent.
The well-appointed bass parts are the most striking, intended as a firm foundation for the vocal melody, which is not seldom strengthened by the violins and oboes or flutes.
Even when the old fashion is retained of employing only oboes and horns, there is an evident appreciation of the special powers of the instruments expressed, it may be, in a few notes.
The orchestra remains in continual motion; at first a tender violin passage is introduced, then the oboes and bassoons alternate with each other, and with the voice.
The oboes are employed with a charming effect of longing appeal to the words: "Cont.
Among the oboes you will find De Ribas, Mente and Taulwasser.
At first there were no flutes, and the addition of these has given to the oboes a different position and in many ways caused a different grouping of the instruments.
If trumpets and trombones take part in a chord, flutes, oboes and clarinets are better used to form the harmonic part above the trumpets.
Doubling the horns in octaves by clarinets, oboes or flutes often replaces the combination 1 Trumpet ] 1 Horn (or 2 Horns) ] 8.
Arpeggios and rapid alternation of two intervals legato sound well on flutes and clarinets, but not on oboes and bassoons.
Doubling of wood-wind and horns, and the use of two clarinets, two oboes or two horns in unison to form one harmonic part is likewise to be avoided, as such combinations will have a similar effect on the voice.
Muted trumpets are eminently suited to echo a theme in the oboes; flutes also may imitate clarinets and oboes successfully.
On account of its construction the clarinet is not well adapted to sudden leaps from one octave to another; these skips are easier on flutes, oboes and bassoons.
The four families of wind instruments may be divided into two classes: a) instruments of nasal quality and dark resonance--oboes and bassoons (Eng.
The lower register of the oboes and bassoons is thick and rough, yet still nasal in quality; the very high compass is shrill, hard and dry.
But presently the clarinets make mocking [Music: (Oboes and bassoons)] retorts.
Music: (Flutes, oboes and clarinets) Sempre staccato] Again and again is the climax rung on the first high note of the theme.
Again, the voice was accompanied by a single violin, an oboe and a bass, oboes alone, or a flute and viols.
In orchestras which included twenty-five strings, frequently no less than five oboes and five bassoons would be employed.
Two horns and even two clarinets are frequently to be found in his scores, and lighter touches, such as the accompaniment of the voice by two flutes and a violin, or three oboes and a bassoon, are also to be met with.
When Haydn wrote his first symphony at the time when Mozart was in his infancy, he employed, in addition to strings, only two oboes and two horns.
One fine day the annual volume was found to contain a cantata in several parts written for a contralto solo accompanied by stringed instruments, oboes and an organ obligato.
In the center is a second group--the flutes, oboes and bassoons, while the stringed instruments are at the bottom of the page.
Against this curtain of tone the flutes and piccolos repeat the theme of brooding in F major, and then join the oboes in the D minor chord.
It is first given out by two oboes divided, a single English horn, two bassoons in unison, and four trombones in unison.
Music] stare you in the face, and do not these deep oboes growl away all pastoral feeling, and all bloom?
The engaging melody [Illustration: play music] is sung immediately by the oboes over chords in the clarinets and bassoons and pizzicato arpeggios in the 'cellos.
The theme in this tranquil section is given first to the oboes and bassoons.
So completely had they gone, by the time of Mozart, that he had to change Handel's trumpet parts, to accommodate them to performers of his own time, and transfer the high notes to the oboes and clarinets.
The fundamental notes are extended as in the oboesand flutes by overflowing to another octave, and afterward to the twelfth.
To think of a band that contains as many oboes as violins is enough to take one's breath away, without insisting on other quaint details; yet up to Haydn's visit this was what musical people were accustomed to.
Since they were to play out of doors, Sir Thurio's musicians would have used wind instruments instead of viols, and the oldest serenades are composed for oboes and bassoons.
He multiplied them just as he did the voices in his choruses, consorting a choir of oboes and bassoons, and another of trumpets of almost equal numbers with his violins.
When he was ten years old he wrote some Trios for 2 oboes and bass.
Study from this point of view the progress from the very simple instrumentation of Alexander's Feast, where at first two Oboes are used with the strings, then appear successively two Bassoons (air No.
The absence of flutes, oboes and trumpets shows that Wagner was aiming at a gloomy color, to be obtained only by the omission of such instruments and the use of an increased number of those of low pitch.
Previous to his time, for instance, the French composers accompanied the voices with strings in five parts, and flutes and oboes in two parts.
Horns and violins quaver and snarl, flutes shrill, a brief figure descends in the oboes and clarinets, and Till has shed his rascal-sweat and danced on the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oboes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
