After decades of experimentation, musicians have begun to utilize a strikingly colorful palette of sounds on woodwind instruments. Flute, clarinet, and saxophone players both in jazz and in contemporary settings, regularly use sounds that were unheard of in the middle of the twentieth century. Oboists, forever obsessing over reeds and the demands of their finicky instrument, have lagged somewhat behind their more adventurous colleagues. Oboe Unbound seeks to open up the tradition-bound assumptions of that instrument's ...
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After decades of experimentation, musicians have begun to utilize a strikingly colorful palette of sounds on woodwind instruments. Flute, clarinet, and saxophone players both in jazz and in contemporary settings, regularly use sounds that were unheard of in the middle of the twentieth century. Oboists, forever obsessing over reeds and the demands of their finicky instrument, have lagged somewhat behind their more adventurous colleagues. Oboe Unbound seeks to open up the tradition-bound assumptions of that instrument's capabilities.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Includes 1 sound disc (digital; 4 3/4 in. ) New Instrumentation, 8. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2004004161 Type of material Book Personal name Van Cleve, Libby. Main title Oboe unbound: contemporary techniques / Libby Van Cleve. Published/Created Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004. Description x, 125 p. : ill.; 26 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital; 4 3/4 in. ) ISBN 0810850311 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification MT360. V35 2004 Contents Introduction--Monophonic techniques--Multiphonic techniques--Other resources--Electronics for the oboe: a primer. Subjects Oboe--Instruction and study. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-116), discography (p. 117-119) and index. Series The new instrumentation series; v. 8 New instrumentation; v. 8 Dewey class no. 788.5/2193
