Back Oboè d'amor Catalan Hoboj d'amore Czech Obo d'amore Danish Oboe d’amore German Hobojo de amoro Esperanto Oboe de amor Spanish ابوا دامور Persian Oboe d’amore Finnish Hautbois d'amour French אבוב ד'אמורה HE
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| Woodwind instrument | |
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| Classification | |
| Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 422.112-71 (Double-reeded aerophone with keys) |
| Developed | Eighteenth century |
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The oboe d'amore (Italian for 'love oboe'; (pronounced [ˈɔːboe daˈmoːre]), less commonly hautbois d'amour (French: [obwɑ damuʁ]), is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family.[1] Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and a more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the mezzo-soprano of the oboe family, between the oboe (soprano) and the cor anglais or English horn (alto).[2] It is a transposing instrument, sounding a minor third lower than it is notated, i.e. in A, so it can also be known as a Mezzo-Soprano Oboe. The bell (called Liebesfuß) is pear-shaped and the instrument uses a bocal, similar to but shorter than that of the cor anglais.
- ^ Virginia Snodgrass Gifford: Music for oboe, oboe d'amore, and English horn. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 1983, ISBN 0-313-23762-X.
- ^ Norman Del Mar, Anatomy of the Orchestra (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981): 143. ISBN 0-520-04500-9 (cloth); ISBN 0-520-05062-2.
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