hautbois
Americannoun
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hautbois
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There was a concert; in the course of which a hautbois concerto was so charmingly played, that I could have thought myself upon enchanted ground, had I had spirits more gentle to associate with.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
First mention of the importation of flageolets, hautbois and other instruments, by Edward Enstone, of Boston.
From Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee
These bands included hautbois, cornets, trombones, violas de gamba, flutes, harps, lutes, flageolets.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
If he saw there any one playing on the hautbois, the rebeck, or the bagpipes, he would, for a patard, have them teach him the way to make music on these instruments.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Strawberries, i. 351-354; remarkable varieties of, i. 352-353; hautbois, diœcious, i.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
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