单词 | oboe |
释义 | oboen.1 Music. 1. a. A double-reed wind instrument, with a compass of about 2½ octaves from B♭ below middle C, made from a narrow tube of wood (now also plastic) having a conical bore, and played by means of finger holes and metal keys. Also (occasionally): any instrument resembling this. Cf. hautboy n. 1a.The note A played on the oboe is that to which the instruments of the orchestra tune. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > oboe hautboy?1578 hoybuck1588 oboe1726 1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. 51 Oboe, or Oboy, is a Hautboy, or Hoboy.] 1726 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Dict. Oboe, or Oboy, (in Musick Books) is a Hautboy, or Hoboy. 1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 163 Oboe or Oboi, a Hautboy, or Hoboy. 1789 J. Wolcot Subj. for Painters in Wks. (1812) II. 154 I scarcely know The Oboe from the Double Drum. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 18 The tender accents of his oboe. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 223 They played upon fiddles, oboes, bassoons [etc.]. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ix. 160 The trumpet breaking in on the flute, and the oboë confounding both. 1881 J. T. Slugg Reminisc. Manchester xxvi. 298 Gregory, violinist; Hughes, oboe player. 1931 G. Jacob Orchestral Technique iii. 26 The bassoon also agrees well with its double-reed cousin the oboe. 1977 Listener 9 June 755/4 A touching oboe solo. 1988 P. Manuel Pop. Musics Non-Western World (1990) vi. 165 Instrumental interludes to a pop song may feature a zurna (oboe)—used for outdoor festivities like weddings. 1992 Independent 6 Mar. 31/1 The flute, the oboe, the clarinet, the trumpet and even the saxophone can manage quarter-tones and other micro-intervals with tolerable eveness throughout their range. 2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 141/2 Ajeng is gamelan music with a raucous oboe called a tarompet instead of the refined rebab. b. A player of the oboe, esp. in an orchestra or ensemble; an oboist. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > oboe-player hautboya1640 oboe1784 oboist1860 hautboyist1864 1784 S. Neville Diary 26 Mar. (1950) xiv. 315 Sharp from Town, the oboe of our concert is a very capital performer. 1895 Dict. National Biogr. at Parke, William Thomas In 1777 he was second oboe at the [Drury Lane] theatre and at Vauxhall Gardens... In 1783 he became principal oboe at Covent Garden Theatre. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 56/2 There is usually an exception in the cases of ‘first-desk’ string musicians, who are higher paid than woodwind or brass instrumentalists—except the first horn, first oboe, first flute, and so on. 1938 Oxf. Compan. Music Pl. 117 (caption) A London orchestra of the early 18th century—Harpsichord, 2 Violins and Viola, Cello, Double-bass, Flute and Oboe, and one unidentifiable player. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music VII. 533/2 He [sc. Leon Goossens]..became principal oboe of the Queen's Hall Orchestra at the age of 17. 2. An organ reed stop imitating the oboe's penetrating tone; = hautboy n. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > reed-stop > specific regal1555 curtal1582 trumpet1659 cremona1660 cromorne1694 hautboyc1700 horn1722 serpent1730 dulcian1773 zinke1773 trumpet stop1795 musette1825 fagotto1832 oboe1834 trombone1837 physharmonica1838 cornopean1840 ophicleide1842 posaune1843 button regal1852 shawm1852 vox angelica1852 busaun1855 bombardon1856 tuba1858 bombard1876 clarinet1876 rackett1876 tenoroon1876 clarionet1880 krummhorn1880 1834 Specif. Organ York Minster in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 600 Swell Organ... 42. Horn. 43. Trumpet. 44. Oboe. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 493/1 Trumpet and Oboe stops, being what are called unison stops,..take their lengths from the open diapason. 1951 R. Whitworth Organ Stops & their Uses i. 13 The pipe represented at letter L is the much over-used swell oboe for 4 ft. C. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIII. 790/2 The ubiquitous, ultimately French-inspired English Swell Oboe. 1991 Music & Lett. 72 111 Knecht turns to registration and gives an alphabetical list of stops and their uses. The pieces that follow illustrate music that is suitable for solo stops, and include both a short flute ‘concerto’ and an oboe ‘concerto’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). OBOEn.2 Aeronautics. Now historical. A type of radar navigation and blind-bombing system used for guiding military aircraft, esp. during the Second World War (1939–45): see quot. 1973. Also in oboe-controlled. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > navigational systems OBOE1945 navar1946 omni-range1947 omni1949 tacan1955 navigation system1959 nav/com1966 nav/attack1967 1945 Daily Mirror 15 Aug. 4/2 Next came ‘Gee’, the bombing beam which guided our radar-equipped bombers on to their targets, and the even more accurate ‘Oboe’. 1946 R.A.F. Jrnl. May 169 ‘Oboe’-controlled Mosquito aircraft were assigned to the marking of targets. 1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War i. 59 The Oboe pathfinders started later and were faster... The pathfinder was under Oboe control, while approaching the target, for about ten minutes. 1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons & Mil. Terms 330/3 Oboe (observer bombing over enemy), A system developed by the Allies early in World War II. It consisted of a radar navigation and blind-bombing system that used two ground stations which measured the distance to a radar beacon carried by an aircraft. The ground stations were designated ‘Cat’ and ‘Mouse’ and served to keep the aircraft on a direct path to the target. 1989 T. G. Mahaddie Story of Pathfinder (BNC) 50 A great number of the OBOE pilots were in fact Blind Approach Training (BAT) instructors and the hurdle was 1,000 hours on a BAT flight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). oboev. rare. transitive. To utter (words, etc.) with a sound like an oboe. ΚΠ 1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay i. 8 Like an oboe, Mr. Pelvey intoned: ‘The Lord be with you.’..those words, good Lord! that Mr. Pelvey was oboeing out of existence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11726n.21945v.1923 |
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