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Reference Guides - Oboe
This guide is designed to help you find information about, and music for, the oboe. Use this as a starting point, or browsing tool. As always, consult Voyager and the catalogs for complete holdings information, and when uncertain, ask at the Reference Desk!


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Suggested Call Numbers for Shelf Browsing
Below are general call number ranges. For specific call numbers, consult the Library of Congress Classification Schedule in the blue book at the Reference Desk, and/or Voyager.

M65-M69 oboe alone
M245-M246 oboe with piano accompaniment
M288-M289 duets - with another wind instrument
M290-M291 duets - with a string instrument
M296-M297 duets - oboe with guitar, harp
M1022 concertos with orchestra
M1023 concertos with orchestra (arranged)
M1122 concertos with string orchestra
M1123 concertos with string orchestra (arranged)
MT362-MT365 studies and methods for oboe
MT366 orchestral excerpts

For trios, quartets, and other ensembles, see the Chamber Music guide.


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Suggested Subject Headings
Below are examples of some useful subject headings for use in Voyager and the Card Catalog. For complete listings of headings, consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (red books).

Headings for Voyager Headings for Subject Catalog
oboe music Under "oboe":
oboe and [bassoon, clarinet etc.] collections
oboe with [band, orchestra etc.] concertos
oboe music oboes 2 solos with ensembles
sonatas oboe sonatas
concertos oboe studies
concertos oboe solo with piano suites
woodwind trios; wind trios; trios
woodwind quartets; wind quartets; quartets Under "chamber music":
woodwind quintets; wind quintets; quintets duets: oboe
[follow for sextets, septets, octets, nonets] trios: oboe, etc.


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Selected Bibliography of Literature and Repertoire Lists
Bate, Philip. The oboe, an outline of its history, development, and construction. London: E. Benn, 1956. ML940.B328O
Fleurot, Francois. Le hautbois dans la musique francaise 1650-1800. Paris: Picard, c.1984. ML943.F616 H379 1984
Freillon-Poncein, Jean-Pierre. On Playing Oboe, Recorder, and Flageolet, trans. Catherine Parsons Smith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. MT362.F864 V51 1992
Gifford, Virginia Snodgrass. Music for oboe, oboe d'amore, and English horn: a bibliography of materials at the Library of Congress. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. Ref. ML128.O2 G45
Goosens, Leon. Oboe. 2nd ed. London: MacDonald Tutura Publishers, 1980. MT360.G569 O12 1980
Haynes, Bruce. Catalogue of chamber music for the oboe, 1654-c. 1825, 4th ed. rev. and corrected. The Hague: B. Haynes, 1980. Ref. ML128.O2 H4 1980
_____. Music for Oboe, 1650-1800: A Bibliography. 2nd ed. Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1992. Ref. ML128.O2 H4 M9 1992
Hosek, Miroslav. Oboen-Bibliographie. Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen, 1975. Ref. ML128.O2 H825 1984
Joppig, Gunther. The Oboe and the Bassoon, trans. Alfred Clayton. London: Batsford, 1988. ML931.J81 O1 1988
Prodan, James C. Index of articles in I.D.R.S. publications, 1969-1986. S.I.: s.n., 1987. Ml1.I6171
Sadie, Stanley. New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984. Ref. ML102.I5 N532 1984
Stanton, Robert E. The oboe player's encyclopedia: solo listings, record listings, double-reed supply listing, oboe/English horn repairmen, tool makers and suppliers. Oneonta, NY: Swift-Dorr Publications, 1972. ML128.O2 S792
Wilkins, Wayne. The index of oboe music including the index of baroque trio sonatas. Magnolia, AR: Music Register, 1976. (includes supplements 1977 and 1978) Ref. ML128.O2 W685I
Related works may be found by searching the subject: oboe.


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  Periodicals
  • The Double Reed
  • Early Music
  • The Galpin Society Journal
  • Instrumentalist
  • International Musician
  • Journal of the International Double Reed Society
  • Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott (later Rohrblatt)
  • Das Orchester
  • Windplayer

Current issues of periodicals are found alphabetically in the current periodicals room (third floor). For call numbers of older, bound issues, look in the Sibley Library Serials list (found on quick reference shelves).


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Internet
Anna's Oboe List
International Double Reed Society
Doublereed-L listserv
Oboe Links
Oboe on Yahoo!


Compiled by Phil Ponella, 7/95, Rev. 7/97; Rev. by Jim Farrington and Anna Hendrickson 7/99, Rev. 6/00


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