hautbois

How To Use hautbois In A Sentence

• It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• Hautbois -- there's the French of it. haut, meaning high, and bois, wood. Local Colour
• The hautbois or ‘highwood’ as the direct translation would have it, came to us through its stages of hautboy, dropping the ‘h’ and altering vowels to oboe.
• The two musicians, having finished tuning their hautbois and flutes, began to rehearse. La Sylphide
• Shakespeare's stage directions call for 'hautboys', the English form of the French hautbois, meaning literally 'high wood'.
• _Hautbois de Poitou_, a hautbois having the reed enclosed in an air-chamber, just as is the case with the reeds of the bag-pipe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• Hautbois — there's the French of it. haut, meaning high, and bois, wood. Local Color
• Anticyclonic movement; "Depression" on the hautbois; increase of wind; then thunder, lightning, rain -- all the elements at it! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
• There are no pressing questions about Bruckner performance like "With what shall we replace the Serpent?" or "What gives us the most authentic hautbois sound? Period-performance Bruckner
• The reeds were double "hautbois" reeds all set in a wooden stock or box within the bag; by means of regulators or slides, called _layettes_, moving up and down in longitudinal grooves round the circumference of the barrel, the length of the drone pipes could be so regulated that a simple harmonic bass, consisting mainly of the common chord, could be obtained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"