noun
definition
A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
Examples of oboes in a Sentence
The modern Wagnerian conductor is apt to complain that Beethoven, in his four-bar phrase, drowns a melody which lies in the weakest register of the clarinet by a crowd of superfluous notes in oboes, horns and flutes.
He does not seem to have found any English trumpeters capable of playing as high parts as those of the German Clarin-Bldser, and his plan seems generally to get as many oboes and bassoons as could be procured to double the top and bottom of his string-band.
This scheme, with the addition of a pair of trumpets and drums and, occasionally, oboes, forms the normal orchestra of 18th-century Masses developed or degenerated from this model.
The accompaniment also includes two oboes, two clarinets, two bass bassoons, two horns, tuba and tympani.
Keith lives in Norfolk, where he now has the workshop and from where all our serpents and historical oboes are despatched.
The chanter reeds are usually like the ones in shawms, or modern oboes.
All instrumentalists are welcome, although new violas, oboes and brass are particularly welcome.