Definition of oboe in English:
oboe
noun ˈəʊbəʊˈoʊboʊ
1A woodwind instrument with a double-reed mouthpiece, a slender tubular body, and holes stopped by keys.
- The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
- It is a charming piece, and performers and concert-planners should note that it is helpfully and economically scored for an orchestra consisting of just two oboes, two bassoons and strings.
- Our instruments - oboe d' amore and harpsichord, were made for each other.
- It lay for me, somewhere between the voice and horn of that special performance of Britten's Serenade - rather than the oboe and the cor anglais, its immediate oboistic neighbours.
- After the cor anglais, the oboe and the clarinet, the wind ensemble sings ‘Alleluia’ under a luminous haze of trills and harmonies in the strings.
- There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
- Unlike most reunions where the focus is on sharing fond memories, these ladies showed up armed with oboes, clarinets and trombones ready to pick up where they left off more than 40 years ago.
- The musical difficulty, the nasal quality of the tone and the fact that everyone tunes off the oboe gives double reed players an aura of snobbery; whether it's real or perceived depends on the player.
- A 1900 train journey inspired Train Music, and Grainger envisioned it for a huge orchestra of 150 players, including 8 oboes and 6 bassoons.
- They are indeed miniatures, as the entire set of eight take about eight minutes to perform by the pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, violins, violas, cellos and one horn.
- Classes will be offered for the violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, trumpet, trombone, and bassoon as well as composition and orchestral conduction.
- How sad it would be to think that the oboe means just one instrument.
- He began playing the piano when he was five, then played a lot of different instruments in high school, including the oboe and the clarinet.
- It's a concerto for the combination of instruments (horn, oboe, clarinet and bassoon) that appear solo in the program's other works.
- Traditional bands include instruments that most closely resemble Western flutes, oboes, xylophones, and drums.
- On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
- At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos (like an oboe or shawm), or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.
- Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
- Berckmans is still on board, and his oboe, bassoon and English horn remain a major part of the group's mediaeval chamber music sound.
- Regardless of whether the songs featured distorted guitars or oboes and clarinets, Downes' lyrical romanticism remained constant and fervent.
- 1.1 An organ stop resembling an oboe in tone.
Derivatives
oboist
- His musicianship makes him an interpreter who can put more than most oboists into Britten's microscopic mouldings.
- I have always found this piece shallow and out of proportion from a pen of such greatness, although I know I am in the minority amongst oboists.
- There is a peculiarly haunting quality to the sound, and the rapport between oboist and cellist testifies to the time they have spent working together.
- She had been an oboist in her old school's band, while I played flute in concert band and was on flag line during marching season.
- British composers were especially lucky in their clarinetists, oboists, horn players, and violists.
noun ˈəʊbəʊɪstˈoʊboʊwəst
Origin
Early 18th century: from Italian, or from French hautbois, from haut 'high' + bois 'wood'.
Rhymes
hobo, lobo
Definition of oboe in US English:
oboe
nounˈoʊboʊˈōbō
1A woodwind instrument with a double-reed mouthpiece, a slender tubular body, and holes stopped by keys.
- It's a concerto for the combination of instruments (horn, oboe, clarinet and bassoon) that appear solo in the program's other works.
- He began playing the piano when he was five, then played a lot of different instruments in high school, including the oboe and the clarinet.
- Our instruments - oboe d' amore and harpsichord, were made for each other.
- At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos (like an oboe or shawm), or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.
- Classes will be offered for the violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, trumpet, trombone, and bassoon as well as composition and orchestral conduction.
- It lay for me, somewhere between the voice and horn of that special performance of Britten's Serenade - rather than the oboe and the cor anglais, its immediate oboistic neighbours.
- The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed!
- Unlike most reunions where the focus is on sharing fond memories, these ladies showed up armed with oboes, clarinets and trombones ready to pick up where they left off more than 40 years ago.
- They are indeed miniatures, as the entire set of eight take about eight minutes to perform by the pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, violins, violas, cellos and one horn.
- Other unique curiosities are the 3 Sonatas that the composer wrote for each of the main woodwind instruments; oboe, bassoon and clarinet, although those for cor anglais and flute never saw the light of day.
- On this recording, there are nine violins, three violas, three cellos, a double bass, one flute, three oboes, one bassoon, three trumpets, a set of timpani, and a harpsichord.
- How sad it would be to think that the oboe means just one instrument.
- After the cor anglais, the oboe and the clarinet, the wind ensemble sings ‘Alleluia’ under a luminous haze of trills and harmonies in the strings.
- Traditional bands include instruments that most closely resemble Western flutes, oboes, xylophones, and drums.
- Berckmans is still on board, and his oboe, bassoon and English horn remain a major part of the group's mediaeval chamber music sound.
- A 1900 train journey inspired Train Music, and Grainger envisioned it for a huge orchestra of 150 players, including 8 oboes and 6 bassoons.
- The musical difficulty, the nasal quality of the tone and the fact that everyone tunes off the oboe gives double reed players an aura of snobbery; whether it's real or perceived depends on the player.
- It is a charming piece, and performers and concert-planners should note that it is helpfully and economically scored for an orchestra consisting of just two oboes, two bassoons and strings.
- There are no cellos, a disproportionately large number of double-basses, and big brass and wind sections but no oboes and bassoons.
- Regardless of whether the songs featured distorted guitars or oboes and clarinets, Downes' lyrical romanticism remained constant and fervent.
- 1.1 An organ stop resembling an oboe in tone.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Italian, or from French hautbois, from haut ‘high’ + bois ‘wood’.