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Re: The real practical range (compass) of the Oboe

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2018-03-10 03:29

It is telling that the two great Oboe concertos by Mozart and Haydn only go up to D above the second leger line. Mozart's Sonata goes up to F above the second leger line. These works of course where written when the Oboe (Baroque) didn't actually have an octave key let alone two of them. The high register was attained by the embouchure on the reed. Must have been hard work.
It is also very interesting that the two tutor books that I have hardly ever go up to F#/G. Rubanks Selected Studies for Oboe (actually identical to the Saxophone book) has one solitary high F# in it (page 33) and even then an alternative F# is written one octave lower. This book is fairly heavy going as the studies are very advanced and go as far as 6 flats / 6 sharps.
Then there is the tutor for Oboe by Otto Langey which also has advanced studies in it including extracts from the classical era symphonies ect. It has only two solitary high Gs and they are on page 52 in the chromatic scale studies. On that same page there are four high F#s two of which appear in the Gb major study.
This tells me that even those two high notes are not really all that important in mastering the art of Oboe playing.

Skyfacer

Post Edited (2018-03-10 03:31)

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