hautbois
Americannoun
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hautbois
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They must have had a busy time together, for he had lessons from Zachau not only in organ playing, but in harmony, counterpoint, canon, and fugue; and in hautbois, violin, and harpsichord playing.
From Child's Own Book of Great Musicians: Handel by Thomas Tapper
His method of treating the organ is wonderful, and his idea of the ritournello Sur le Jeu de hautbois is charming.
From Musical Memories by Edwin Gile Rich
We must await some more conclusive explanation, but we may suppose that the new name was bestowed when the instrument assumed a form entirely new to the family of hautbois or oboes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
This pyramid, then, with twenty or thirty porcelain dishes, was so completely upset at the door, that the noise it made put to silence the violins, hautbois, and trumpets.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
When the author indicated the altos with the basses, the hautbois with the violins, these copyists undertook to make the necessary modifications.
From On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music by Camille Saint-Saëns
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