OBOE


Meaning of OBOE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

play

There couldn't be many Charlotte Rossignols who happen also to play the oboe .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A Congress of Passions was written in 1994 for counter-tenor, piano and oboe .

He was a nice chap called Roland who entertained us with such finesse on his flute and oboe .

The oboe tends to lose power and body in its upper register, but with the clarinet the opposite is the case.

The strings unfold a sequence of shivery chords, and voice and oboe briefly entwine before the singer is left in solitude.

There is more dicey woodwind intonation in the Eroica, and the oboe tone in the Funeral March curdles alarmingly.

You can not imagine the glorious effect of a symphony with flutes, oboes and clarinets.

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