hautboy

His other two books, The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy, 1640-1760 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), and History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A" (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002), firmly established Haynes's credentials as a performer/ scholar with the experience, perspective, and authority to assess where we have been, where we are now, and to suggest where to go from here.

The second facsimile edition of A Collection of the Most Celebrated Irish Tunes Proper for the Violin, German Flute or Hautboy is expanded with illustrations and further introductory matter, notes, and song texts where applicable.

Lebrun's concertos provide the most de tailed record of the capacities of the classical hautboy. Technically they lie beyond the demands of most contemporaneous oboe music, and while accessible to players of the modern Conservatoire oboe, specialists of the historical oboe are only beginning to come to terms with the challenges they pose.

Furthermore, Cambert brought with him to London in 1673 a number of young French musicians who were proficient not only on the recorder but also on the French hautboy. (They included Maxant de Bresmes, Pierre Guiton, [Jean?] Boutet and Jacques Paisible.)(16) Some of these were clearly among the performers whose playing Courtin admired in the duchess's apartments.

Haynes tells the story of the instruments and makers, the repertory and composers, the performance practices and players, as well as the venues and audiences that constituted the age of the baroque oboe--or "hautboy," as he prefers to call it.

Lasocki, |The French hautboy in England, 1673-1730', Early music, xvi (1988), pp.339-42.

(29) Shedlock's original Purcell Society Edition states (p.viii) that in a manuscript volume in the library of the Royal College of Music, |the Violin Solo is given to an Hautboy'; unfortunately he does not identify the manuscript, and it cannot now be found.

(12) Antonio Vivaldi, [Con.sup.to] Funebre / Con Hautboy Sordin e Salmoe / e Viole all'Inglese / Tutti li Violine e Violette Sordini / Non pero'il viol [degrees] Principale, published as Facsimile del concerto funebre di Antonio Vivaldi in Quaderno dell'Accademia Chigiana, xv (Sienna, 1947).

The audience would first of all have perceived certain physical phenomena (the noise of trumpets, hautboys, and drums, for instance) as well as elusive perceptual phenomena conveyed by these physical sounds ("brightness" in the trumpet, for example, or "pointedness" in the hautboys).

A Medieval gallery adorned the western wall, Where viols and flutes and hautboys had played the music all, The choristers protested, they didn't want it gone, But when they came to church one day, they saw the deed was done.

comes with obboys Tropats fifes Hautboys, trumpets, fifes and and drums drums, In dreadful concert joind, Send from afar send from a far A sound of war, and sound of war 75.

being done to the sweet thrilling of flutes and clarionets sustained by the emotional drone of the hautboys" (p.

These first bands consisted of a small number of musicians who played such instruments as hautboys, horns, bassoons and drums.

The small wind instruments in the herons' throats play an incorrigible music on a scale incommensurate with hautboys and baroque wigs.

there followed trumpets, hautboys and kettle drums, a handsome appearance of gentlemen of the County and after dinner the Strong Man was chosen one of the stewards for the year succeeding'; he was William Joice who used to exhibit himself at fairs.