Definition von oboe im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grendilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family
Originating from the Shawn, it is a woodwind, having a conical bore and double reed It has a long history of refinements since the shawn of the Renaissance period As music developed in the Baroque period, the oboe was of integral importance Its initial harsh tones and six finger holes were changed and refined by Jean Hotteterre in the mid 1600's Theobald Boehm later refined the oboe we know today with its complex finger pattern The treble or soprano oboe is pitched in C and can cover three octaves
a double-reed woodwind instrument having a conical tube, a brilliant penetrating tone, and a usual range from B flat below middle C upward for over 2 ½ octaves
One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy
An oboe is a musical instrument shaped like a tube which you play by blowing through a double reed in the top end. a wooden musical instrument like a narrow tube, which you play by blowing air through a reed (hautbois, from haut + bois ). Double-reed woodwind instrument. The oboe developed out of the more powerful shawm in the early 17th century. Intended (unlike the shawm) for indoor use with stringed instruments, its tone was softer and less brilliant. With its sweet but piercing sound, it was by the end of the 17th century the principal wind instrument of the orchestra and military band and, after the violin, the leading solo instrument of the time. The early oboe had only 2 keys, but in France by 1839 the number of keys had gradually increased to
Woodwind instrument with a double reed and conical tube, played in the orchestra, military band, chamber music and as a solo instrument Developed in 17th-century France
a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
With the decline in popularity of the military band, the oboe likewise declined somewhat in popularity. Today the orchestra generally includes two oboes. The oboe d'amore, an alto oboe with a pear-shaped bell, was especially popular in the 18th century; the modern alto oboe is the English horn
A member of the woodwind instrument family, with the following stages of sound production: energy source: air vibrating element: double reed resonating chamber: the instrument's body
[ 'O-(")bO ] (noun.) 1794. An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).