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  • noun Plural form of oboe.

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Examples

  • A week without as much music, and now the baroque winding of oboes is pleasant.

    Unexamined Twits « Unknowing 2010

  • That necessitates a march, and I have composed a very simple one for two violins, viola, bass and two oboes, which is to be played a mezza voce, during which the King enters and the priests make the preparations for the sacrifice.

    Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905

  • The advanced scores created for the Broadway stage require instruments such as oboes, violins and tenor saxophones not included in high school marching or concert bands, Belsak said.

    unknown title 2009

  • To keep the pace moving, Rossini has those final plucked chords overlap a new, rustling motif by the violas and second violins, answered with three detached chords for piccolo, flute and two oboes.

    The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

  • Cue swirling oboes, secrets and the usual gaggle of eccentric villagers and brutally middle-class ladies of certain vintage being absolutely beastly to one another.

    Tonight's TV highlights Ali Catterall 2010

  • "I recommend the flutes and oboes and clarinets don't try to sing," Mr. Domingo joked.

    Maestro in Harmony Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012

  • I've heard that a minor second on two oboes can dissolve cataracts.

    Intervallic cell Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Unlike Handel's first Messiah performance in Dublin in 1742, we used oboes and bassoon, but everything else was scaled down to bare essentials.

    Massive Messiah 2011

  • But only players and conductor can take responsibility for clumsy entries, sour intonation, coarse ensemble and clunkers in the horns and oboes so unfortunate there's no need to be so specific as to when or where they were.

    Die Frau ohne Schatten; BBC Proms 61 & 62 – review 2011

  • The instrumental choirs often played separately and set a mood: When the recorders played, their delicacy was the point, contrasted with the more raucous oboes or bassoons.

    The Sad Tale It Tells Is Myth; Its Joys, Real Heidi Waleson 2011

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