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tenoroon|tɛnəˈruːn| [f. tenor + -oon in bassoon, or short for tenor bassoon.] a. A wooden reed-instrument intermediate in pitch between the oboe and the bassoon; also called tenor oboe or tenor bassoon. Also attrib., as tenoroon oboe. Until recently Hist., but now revived in performances of baroque music. b. A reed-stop in an organ, resembling the oboe stop, but not extending below tenor C. Also applied to any stop not extending below tenor C; also attrib., as tenoroon diapason.
1849Chambers' Inform. People II. 766/2 The tenoroon, a wood instrument played with a reed, is seldom employed. 1879Stainer Music of Bible 79 The tenor oboe or tenoroon. 1881C. A. Edwards Organs xxii. 155 When it ceases at tenor C this stop [double open diapason] is named the Tenoroon. 1884W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 88 Tenoroon, a name..given to the Tenor Bassoon or Alto Fagotto in F... It has entirely gone out of use. 1898Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Tenoroon..(2) A word affixed to an organ stop to denote that it does not proceed below tenor C, as tenoroon hautboy. A tenoroon diapason is a double diapason which does not extend below tenor C. 1980Early Music Gaz. Jan. 9/2 William Waterhouse..performed music by Selma, Böddecker..on racket, two original 18th-century bassoons (Handel period 4-key and Mozart period 7-key, tenoroon and modern Heckel). |