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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
oboe d'amore n 1: an oboe pitched a minor third lower than the ordinary oboe; used to perform baroque music | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Oboe \O"boe\, n. [It., fr. F. hautbois. See Hautboy.] (Mus.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy. [1913 Webster] Oboe d'amore [It., lit., oboe of love], and Oboe di caccia [It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of Bach and Handel. [1913 Webster] | ||
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