‖ oboe d'amore
(ˈoboe daˈmore)
Pl. oboes, oboi.
[It., lit. ‘oboe of love’.]
An old form of oboe with a pitch a minor third below that of the ordinary oboe.
| 1876 [see prec.]. 1885 G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 62 The renovation of the obsolete oboe d'amore (love-hautboy)..proved very successful. 1930 [see flûte-à-bec]. 1962 Listener 27 Dec. 1109/2 Oboe d'amore and two bassoons. 1976 Gramophone July 199/3 Scored only for strings and two oboi d'amore, it has some of the most remarkable writing in all Bach's church cantatas. |