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The oboe is especially used in classical music, film music, some genres of folk music, and is occasionally heard in jazz, rock, pop, and popular music. The oboe is widely recognized as the instrument that tunes the orchestra with its distinctive 'A'. [3] A musician who plays the oboe is called an oboist.
Perry Wayne Bauman (22 July 1918 – 16 August 2004) was an oboist, born and educated in the United States and active in Canada.He served as the principal oboe of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the CBC Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of the National Ballet of Canada, and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Invented in Halifax, Nova Scotia around 1970 by Peter Gamoulakos. [6] Fricot – A traditional stew consisting of clams, chicken and other meats. Ginger beef – is a Canadian Chinese dish made from beef, ginger, and a distinctive sweet sauce. Hawaiian pizza – invented by the Greek-Canadian cook and businessman Sam Panopoulos, in 1962.
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.
The piston (Breton: pistoñ, English phonetic "pist-on") is a type of oboe invented by Breton musician, teacher, and luthier Youenn Le Bihan in 1983. [1] The pistoñ is a contemporary development of the hautbois, classical and/or baroque oboe, influenced by the bombard or talabard, the traditional double reed instrument of Brittany. It is ...
The taille, also called the taille de hautbois or the alto oboe, was a Baroque tenor oboe pitched in F. It had a straight body, an open bell, and two keys. [1]
The oboe d'amore was invented in the eighteenth century and was first used by Christoph Graupner in his cantata Wie wunderbar ist Gottes Güt (1717). Johann Sebastian Bach wrote many pieces—a concerto, many of his cantatas, and the Et in Spiritum sanctum movement of his Mass in B minor—for the instrument.
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