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Article: The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760. (Book Reviews: Instruments).(Book Review)
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The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760. By Bruce Haynes. (Oxford Early Music Series.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [xxix, 528 P. ISBN 0-19-816646-X. $99.] Music examples, illustrations, index.
With The Eloquent Oboe, Bruce Haynes has made a formidable contribution to the history of woodwinds. Fully researched and meticulously documented, the volume presents three phases of the oboe's development from 1640 to 1760. Haynes begins with the transition from the Renaissance shawm to the new French hautbois, continues with the rapid spread of the instrument and its players throughout western Europe, and concludes with the subsequent ...