OBOE

The oboe is a double-reed woodwind instrument with a penetrating, nasal, and lyrical tone. It became important in the Baroque orchestra and later remained a central color in symphonic and chamber music. Its repertoire includes concertos, orchestral solos, and film themes such as Gabriel’s Oboe, while related traditions include the Indian shehnai.

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OBOE

Marcello's Oboe Concerto arranged by Bach and mistakenly attributed to Vivaldi

Concerto in D minor for oboe, strings, and continuo, also known as Marcello's Oboe Concerto, can rightfully be called a...
FILM

Gabriel's Oboe: soulful Morricone tune that soothes the Iguazu Falls

Gabriel's Oboe is a short instrumental piece written by Ennio Morricone for a key scene in Roland Joffé's period drama...
SONGWRITER

Ladytron: Roxy Music's lunar landing with mellotron, oboe, and synth

Ladytron is one of Roxy Music's most noteworthy tracks released on their 1972 debut album. One of the song's strongest...
SONGWRITER

Twist in My Sobriety: rare oboe solo in Tanita Tikaram's best song

Twist in My Sobriety is a song by British pop-folk singer Tanita Tikaram released as a single from her debut album...
OBOE

The dramatic-abstract of Thea Musgrave's music as influenced by serialism

Thea Musgrave is a Scottish-American composer whose formative years fell on the mid-1950s when revolutionary musical...
Shehnai

Shehnai oboe and its greatest virtuoso proclaimed the Indian Independence Act of 1947

For several centuries most ceremonial or festive events in India, Pakistan, and Nepal have been accompanied by lively...
ORCHESTRA

Ludwig August Lebrun: the sweet genius of Mannheim

Ludwig August Lebrun (1752—1790) was a phenomenal German oboist who contributed several mellow oboe pieces to the...
ORCHESTRA

The most performed contemporary composer grew up with Bob Marley music

Jennifer Higdon is a contemporary composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Awards. According to a recent...
WIND ENSEMBLE

Mozart's rewritten serenade inspired by street musicians

The Serenade in E-flat major exists in two versions: a sextet of two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns, and an...
OBOE

Corelli's famous violin piece rearranged for oboe three centuries later

One of the seminal figures of early Baroque, Arcangelo Corelli, was the master of violin which supremacy in the...