THE ORCHESTRA: A USER'S MANUAL

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OBOES

Section: Woodwind
Transposing?
Oboe: No
Cor Anglais (and others): Yes

Construction
Range
Articulations
Effects
Extended
Player's Tips and Tricks

Links

 

 

Chris Cowie offers tips and tricks on oboe writing, from a player's perspective,

about composers!
discomfort
excessive writing
extremely loud passages
good writing
harmonics
mistakes often made
oboe vs. cor anglais
writing for the oboe

and Huw Clement-Evans does the same for the cor anglais.

as fast as possible?
breathing
circular breathing
composers
leaps