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Stuart Dunkel is an oboist and painter based in Massachusetts. [1] He has performed in a number of orchestras listed below. He has been painting since age five and playing music since age 7. He has written a book The Audition Process: Anxiety Management and Coping Strategies and released a CD of his music called Oboe Colors. [2]
An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette. The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in ...
The pear-shaped bell (called Liebesfuß) of the cor anglais gives it a more covered timbre than the oboe, closer in tonal quality to the oboe d'amore.Whereas the oboe is the soprano instrument of the oboe family, the cor anglais is generally regarded as the alto member of the family, and the oboe d'amore—pitched between the two in the key of A—as the mezzo-soprano member. [5]
The oboe d'amore was invented in the eighteenth century and was first used by Christoph Graupner in his cantata Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güt (1717). Johann Sebastian Bach wrote many pieces—a concerto, many of his cantatas, and the Et in Spiritum sanctum movement of his Mass in B minor—for the instrument.
Reed aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. In order to produce sound with these Aerophones the player's breath is directed against a lamella or pair of lamellae which periodically interrupt the airflow and cause the air to be set in motion.
This apparently was an oboe-type instrument in the bassoon range. It had, nonetheless, a distinct tonal quality of its own. It had, nonetheless, a distinct tonal quality of its own. Richard Strauss states, in his edition of Hector Berlioz 's Treatise on Instrumentation , that its tone "...had not the slightest similarity with the low tones of ...
Bob Stuart, who went 234-101-8 in 37 seasons as football coach at Eastmoor and Reynoldsburg, died Aug. 2 at age 98.
Left: a classical oboe by Harry Vas Dias. Center: a 'piston' oboe by Youenn Le Bihan. Right: a "hautbois rustique" oboe by Hervieux & Glet. The bombard has been in constant evolution in recent decades. Contemporary bombards may have sophisticated keywork, resulting in fully chromatic instruments.