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Repertoire examples for Oboe, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.

Recommended Listenings

The Technique of Orchestration

KENNAN AND GRANTHAM (2002, P. 103), THE TECHNIQUE OF ORCHESTRATION.

Suggested listening for Oboe. Playlist available here on Spotify.

“Bach, Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2.

Beethoven, Third Symphony, 2nd movt. (Marcia Funebre) meas. 8; Sixth Symphony, 3rd movt. (Scherzo) meas. 91; Seventh Symphony, 1st movt., meas. 300.

Schumann, Second Symphony, 3rd movt. (Adagio espressivo) meas. 8.

Brahms, Violin Concerto, beginning of 2nd movt.

Mahler, Das Lied von derErde, beginning of 2nd movt., beginning of 6th movt.

Debussy, Iberia, Part II (Les parfums de la nuit) beginning, also 4 bars before figure 40.

Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Trio of the Rigaudon; La Valse, figure 18.

Strauss, Death and Transfiguration, measure 30; Don Quixote, 8 bars before figure 3.

Shostakovich, First Symphony, beginning of 3rd movt.

Bartok, Concertofor Orchestra, II. (“Giuoco delle Coppie”), meas. 25.

Schuller, Seven Studies on Themes ofPaul Klee, 5th movt. ”