The Eloquent Oboe
Subtitle: A History of the Hautboy from 1640-1760 (Oxford Early Music Series)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 18, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780198166467
First sentence: The hautboy was a response by shawm players to new demands in the music of the middle of the seventeenth century.