Placeholder text

Go to cart

The Oboe

By Geoffrey Burgess

The Oboe

By Geoffrey Burgess

0 - Used - very good
Description
The oboe, including its earlier forms the shawm and the hautboy, is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologists trace that history from its beginnings to the present time, discussing how and why the oboe evolved, what music was written for it, and which players were prominent. Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes begin by describing the oboe's prehistory and subsequent development out of the shawm in the mid-seventeenth century. They then examine later stages of the instrument, from the classical hautboy to the transition to a keyed oboe and eventually the Conservatoire-system oboe. The authors consider the instrument's place in Romantic and Modernist music and analyze traditional and avant-garde developments after World War II. Noting the oboe's appearance in paintings and other iconography, as well as in distinctive musical contexts, they examine what this reveals about the instrument's social function in different eras. Throughout the book they discuss the great performers, from the pioneers of the seventeenth century to the traveling virtuosi of the eighteenth, the masters of the romantic period and the legends of the twentieth century such as Gillet, Goossens, Tabuteau, and Holliger. With its extensive illustrations, useful technical appendices, and discography, this is a comprehensive and authoritative volume that will be the essential companion for every woodwind student and performer.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
2010-04-06
Publication Date:
2010-02-15
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
03001005310387595783
ISBN13:
9780300100532
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1078 g
Height:
174 cm
Width:
247 cm
Thickness:
33 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out