Author: vboboe
Date: 2005-11-08 07:14
... solo singing not same as choral singing, ditto symphonic oboe not same as solo oboe; only in symphonic playing need solo oboe style at times, best of both worlds!
... agree, merge with flutes, think of flutes as beautiful white fluffy clouds (figuratively) and oboe timbre provides the shading grey-scale outlines which give the clouds subtle definition
... but when oboe line rises above top F, much stronger sound than flutes playing in the same region of upper treble, have to lighten up, become more dolce skylark or nightingale in tone, or the oboe's dark outline definition of the clouds seems mucho menacing -- unless that's intended effect, of course
... for instance, Pirates of Caribbean is upper octave oboe and blood red, sharp cutlass cutting edge desirable tonal quality, but couldn't do that in Ode to Joy, soft peachy pink and baby blue-violet much more appropriate
Symphonic playing, isn't that all about getting one's smallest wind aperture's no-fair! whining heard above all those whangy strings in front of the under-populated woodwinds, while all the heavy brass & percussion are really belting it out behind your back?
I reckon there's only one certain solution to get louder oboe sound in any orchestra, hire standard complement of 5 oboes singing mf dolce in upper register and sonore in lower register, instead of only 1 or 2 or maybe 3 busting a gut reaching for ff + 0.5, that'll really knock everybody's socks off, Handel, smiles all round
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