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Oboe

noun

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

... you as a red pattern on black or green? In these, as in music, there are no figures, no expression of feeling; they are purely artistic, and yet no one looks at them with indifference. Has not the oboe the peculiar tone that we associate with the open country, in common with most wind instruments? The brass suggests martial ideas, and rouses us to vehement or even somewhat furious feelings. The strings, for which ...

— Massimilla Doni • Honore de Balzac

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... passion, pulsing with a more eager throb of desire, in changed tone and pace. Suddenly in a new quarter amid a quick strum of dance the main motive hurries along. The gay sounds vanish, ominous almost in the distance. The sadness of the lover now sings unrestrained in expressive melody (of oboe), in long swinging pace, while far away rumbles the beat of ...

— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp

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... an unfortunate fiddler finding himself a little behind the general body (as he does sometimes) and making a savage rush to catch it up; the hissing of panting flautists; and the barnyard noises produced by exhausted oboe-players. Even with Richter, stolid and trustworthy though he is, these unauthorised sounds count for a great deal; and with a conductor like Mottl, who varies the tempo freely in obedience to his mood in the most rapid pieces, they count for very much more. They result in a ...

— Old Scores and New Readings • John F. Runciman

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