Voorbeelden van oboe

• The oboe, on the other hand, offers very little for the eye, though some players attempt to compensate for this with grand gestures.

• In some sonatas the texture is varied by woodwind doublings of strings with flute or oboe, alternating with solo passages for different groups.

• The places where the oboes become visually prominent are ones that require music in real wedding festivities: processionals, recessionals and dances of communal celebration.

• The oboe is heard first, then the cry and finally the transformation.

• Oboe key-clicks are used to portray rippling water which is heard almost the whole way through.

• Just as a character's costume could instandy identify him as, say, a shepherd, so the sound of an oboe could immediately evoke his rustic world.

• The image here of the breath in blowing the oboe is more passive than the image of breathing in.

• In the second quintet, the last page-turns for oboe and bassoon require a third hand.