Notes for Oboists

Abstract Notes for Oboists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers important historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces composed for the instrument. Numerous contextual and theoretical insights make it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student oboists. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers rich biographical information and informative analyses to help oboists gain a more complete understanding of works including Alessandro Marcello’s Concerto in D Minor, Robert Schumann’s Three Romances Op. 94, Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Isang Yun’s Piri for Oboe Solo, and Reena Esmail’s Jhula Jhule for Oboe and Piano, and thirty other masterpieces. This comprehensive guide to key works from the oboe repertoire from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century includes sonatas, concertos, chamber music, and works for solo oboe by a wide range of composers, including Georg Philipp Telemann, Richard Strauss, William Grant Still, Luciano Berio, and Alyssa Morris. The chapter offers clear structural analyses of these compositions and situates them in their historical contexts as she highlights interesting biographical information for each composer and explores the circumstances of the development and performance of each work. By connecting performance studies with scholarship, this indispensable handbook for students and professionals allows readers to gain a more complete picture of each work and encourages them to approach other compositions in a similarly analytical manner.