The oboe (/ˈoʊboʊ/ OH-boh) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such...
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An oboe is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Oboe or OBOE may also refer to: Oboe (navigation), a World War II British aerial blind bombing...
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Oboe was a British bomb aiming system developed to allow their aircraft to bomb targets accurately in any type of weather, day or night. Oboe coupled...
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The oboe d'amore (Italian for 'love oboe'; (pronounced [ˈɔːboe daˈmoːre]), less commonly hautbois d'amour (French: [obwɑ damuʁ]), is a double reed woodwind...
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"Gabriel's Oboe" is the main theme for the 1986 film The Mission, with Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson and directed by Roland Joffé. The theme...
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Cor anglais (redirect from Alto oboe)
instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially an alto oboe in F. The cor anglais...
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The piccolo oboe, also known as the piccoloboe or sopranino oboe and historically called an oboe musette (or just musette), is the smallest and highest...
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The bass oboe or baritone oboe is a double reed instrument in the woodwind family. It is essentially twice the size of a regular (soprano) oboe so it sounds...
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Oboe Sonata in general is a sonata composed for oboe, Oboe Sonata may also refer to: Oboe Sonata (Howells) Oboe Sonata (Poulenc) Oboe Sonata (Saint-Saëns)...
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The contrabass oboe is a double reed woodwind instrument in the key of F, sounding an octave and a fifth lower than the standard oboe. Recent research...
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The Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935, is an early 18th-century concerto for oboe, strings and continuo attributed to the Venetian composer Alessandro Marcello...
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The oboe da caccia (pronounced [ˈɔːboe da (k)ˈkattʃa]; literally "hunting oboe" in Italian), also sometimes referred to as an oboe da silva, is a double...
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Double reed (redirect from Oboe reed)
instruments, for example, the oboe family, the reed for the oboe is quite different from that for the cor anglais (English horn). Oboe reeds are usually 7 mm...
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The Akademiemodel Wiener oboe, commonly referred to as the Wiener oboe or Viennese oboe, is a type of modern oboe first developed in the 1880s by Josef...
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An Oboe quartet is a composition scored for oboe, violin, viola and basso. While the genre is not very common, Mozart wrote the most well known, his Oboe...
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Borneo campaign (redirect from Operation Oboe)
Japanese-held British Borneo and Dutch Borneo. Designated collectively as Operation Oboe, a series of amphibious assaults between 1 May and 21 July 1945 were conducted...
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The Sonate pour houtbois et piano, FP 185, is an oboe sonata by Francis Poulenc dating from 1962. The composer's last work, it is dedicated to the memory...
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List of oboists (section Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore)
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...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 (271k), was composed in the spring or summer of 1777, for the oboist Giuseppe Ferlendis (1755–1802)...
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Battle of North Borneo (redirect from Operation Oboe Six)
by the sudden conclusion of the war in August 1945. Codenamed Operation Oboe Six, the battle was part of the second phase of the Allied operations to...
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number of concertos (as well as non-concerto works) have been written for the oboe, both as a solo instrument as well as in conjunction with other solo instrument(s)...
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John Mack (musician) (section The John Mack Oboe Camp)
studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with Marcel Tabuteau, the longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia...
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Battle of Tarakan (1945) (redirect from Operation Oboe 1)
with an amphibious landing by Allied forces on 1 May, code-named Operation Oboe One; the Allied ground forces were drawn mainly from the Australian 26th...
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Battle of Balikpapan (1945) (redirect from Operation Oboe Two)
The Battle of Balikpapan was the concluding stage of Operation Oboe, the campaign to liberate Japanese-held British and Dutch Borneo. The landings took...
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An oboe–bassoon–piano trio is a chamber music ensemble made up of one oboe, one bassoon, and one piano, or the name of a piece written for such a group...
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knew Strauss's orchestral writing for oboe thoroughly and asked the composer if he had ever considered writing an oboe concerto. The composer answered simply...
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The Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370/368b, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in early 1781. The quartet is scored for oboe, violin, viola and violone...
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Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds (redirect from Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Orchestra K. 297b)
Allegro 2. Adagio 3. Andantino con variazioni Performed by James Caldwell (oboe), William McColl (clarinet), Robert Bonnevie (horn), and Arthur Grossman...
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World Peace Is None of Your Business (redirect from Oboe Concerto (song))
the Bride Down the Aisle" Morrissey, Tobias 5:18 11. "Mountjoy" Morrissey, Boorer 5:08 12. "Oboe Concerto" Morrissey, Boorer 4:07 Total length: 54:35...
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Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1060 (redirect from Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor)
the 1730s as an arrangement of an earlier concerto, also in C minor, for oboe and violin. That conjectural original version of the concerto, which may...
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