How To Use Shawm In A Sentence

  • At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos (like an oboe or shawm), or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.
  • At the symposium, women danced and sang and performed on the double-reeded aulos (like an oboe or shawm), or lyre, having been hired, sometimes, on the street.
  • BOSTON - At an early-music festival, you expect to see antique instruments: pegless cellos, gambas with ornate scrolls, wooden recorders and tranverse flutes of every size, and perhaps an occasional shawm, rebec or vielle. NYT > Home Page
  • Remnants of a shawm - a form of oboe - dice, draughts and backgammon show that the warship's officers were not short of entertainment after they had feasted on beef, venison, pork and fish.
  • The krumhorns featured on this concert were quite harsh in tone, and I did prefer the warmer sound of the shawms used by Piffaro on Saturday night.
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  • Like Amsterdam perhaps, much of the centre of the city is reclaimed from the water, or the marshes and fens of the wild Shawmut Peninsula that loomed out of the mist to greet the 17th century sailors from the Old World.
  • However, I shall not digress via the ugab and the shawm, tempted as I might be.
  • [35] "The shalm, or shawm, was a wind instrument, like a pipe, with a swelling protuberance in the middle. Rookwood
  • We play for as much of the journey as we can, and we tend to use our shawm band, the traditional outdoor band with the shawm (an early oboe) and the sackbut, or the shagbolt as it was marvellously called sometimes in ‘early’ England!
  • Ironically, the lute, shawm and nakers had all been recently imported to Europe from the Middle East.
  • The double reed consists of two blades of cane bound together (or a single blade folded over and cut at the fold to separate the two blades) so that they beat against each other, as on shawms, oboes, and bassoons.
  • The curtal was created by "folding" the shawm in half.
  • Among them, the consulate Mr. Shawm Steil will give a lecture on Sino-Canada cooperation and Mrs Steil, a doctor from Toronto Univerty will give a lecture on Canadian drama.
  • The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.
  • The multi-skills of the instrumentalists is a source of wonder and, again, the virtuosity is of a sort that does not seek to dazzle; cornetts and shawms are harder than they sound here.
  • The curtal (or dulcian as it was known in Germany) has a conical bore doubled into a ‘U’ to produce a much more compact instrument than for example the larger shawms.
  • The 'beano' comes very near to this land -- so near that across its marches you may hear the sackbut and shawm from the breaks. In Homespun
  • The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.
  • Shawms, sackbuts, dulcians, recorders, krummhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars and percussion provide the fascinating aural dimensions to an entertaining Piffaro performance.
  • Voice, shawms, and dulcians will bring to life the rarely heard music of early Guatemalan manuscripts, found in Bloomington's own famed Lilly Library.
  • Among the items recovered are gold coins, medical equipment, clothing and footwear, and a shawm, a medieval forerunner to the oboe and one of the oldest such musical instruments in the world.
  • The shawm, baroque oboe, baroque bassoon and dulcian can overblow without the use of a thumbhole.
  • The multi-skills of the instrumentalists is a source of wonder and, again, the virtuosity is of a sort that does not seek to dazzle; cornetts and shawms are harder than they sound here.
  • The new instrument was called either a curtal or a dulcian in England, and it became very popular as a general purpose bass instrument, even in refined settings where the higher shawms were considered inappropriate.
  • Follow Piffaro on an enchanting journey into the musical world of shawms, sackbuts, slide trumpets, dulcians, racketts, krummhorns, recorders, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, and all manner of percussion.
  • ‘We play for as much of the journey as we can, and we tend to use our shawm band, the traditional outdoor band with the shawm (an early oboe) and the sackbut, or the shagbolt as it was marvellously called sometimes in ‘early’ England!’
  • The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.
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  • A sackbut is a brass horn that looks alot like a trombone with a slightly smaller bell, and a shawm is a double reed instrument that is a predecessor to the oboe. Calling all Brits - The Panda's Thumb
  • This 2-cd set ends with a dance by Nicolas Gombert; open your mind to the strong rhythms and nasal timbres of the shawms, sackbuts and bajón - the centuries simply roll back.
  • The Gabrieli Players, an ensemble of cornetts, shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, and recorders, bring to life here the rich world of the Spanish wind band, used often in Spanish cathedrals.
  • The painting portrays Renaissance instruments with great accuracy: a tenor or alto shawm, a precursor of the English horn; a Gothic harp; a brass trumpet; a portative organ; a vielle, an early form of violin; a soprano or treble shawm, a distant forerunner of the oboe; a lute; three recorders; a dulcimer being struck by a light hammer; and a harp. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.
  • Their difference is the shawm has only one bore, the dulcian has two and it is folded at the bottom.
  • We must also place among double-reed instruments the various bagpipes, cornemuses, and musettes, which are shawm or oboe instruments with reservoirs of air, and furnished with drones inclosing single reeds. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
  • The painting portrays Renaissance instruments with great accuracy: a tenor or alto shawm, a precursor of the English horn; a Gothic harp; a brass trumpet; a portative organ; a vielle, an early form of violin; a soprano or treble shawm, a distant forerunner of the oboe; a lute; three recorders; a dulcimer being struck by a light hammer; and a harp. Ave Regina Caelorum

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