Title of Dissertation: OBOE QUARTETS: 1970–2020 Sarah Rose Balzer, Doctor of Musical Arts, 2020 Dissertation directed by: Professor of Oboe, Mark Hill, and School of Music Over the last fifty years, the oboe quartet genre has continued to grow. The repertoire has garnered a grea…
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In contemporary Damascus, the modern oboe and an instrument known as its predecessor, the zurna, are heard on a daily basis as they continue to be employed in Syrian popular and folk music practices. After observing the pervasiveness of the sounds of these instruments in Syria, …
Programmatic content and associated instrumental idioms are examined in four works for solo oboe: Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, op. 49, Henri Tomasi's Évocations , Tina Nicholson's Moments from Women, and Helmut Schmidinger's Vier gefiederte Worte des Odysseus…
The modern oboist is frequently called upon to perform concertos from the Classical Era. Often, this means performing the Oboe Concerto in C; K. 314 by W.A. Mozart. Theorists and oboists alike have extensively researched the form, history, and performance practice of this work t…
From the 1920s through the present day, professional female oboists have worked in a variety of settings throughout the United Kingdom, as soloists, chamber musicians, and orchestral players. This group of musicians has been highly influential, inspiring numerous compositions an…
The composer, conductor, and writer Peter Jona Korn is not familiar to many musicians today. His works are rarely performed, but they include several works for the oboe that are valuable additions to the repertoire. Korn’s life bore similarities to many other German-Jewish compo…
Throughout the history of bassoon repertoire, few bassoonists have written numerous concert duets for the instrument. Bassoonist and composer John Steinmetz has composed a total of five duets for bassoon an output surpassed by only a few other published composers. Following an o…