Mastery of the Oboe Takes a Lifetime
Mastery of the oboe requires controlling many variables both technical and musical. Vibrato is a tool that all oboists will have in their toolbox. Learn to be a multi-tool player; develop your technique and try double tonguing, circular breathing, flutter tonguing, multi-phonics. Don't forget that long tones are an advanced technique too!
Books on Wind Technique and Learning
The Simple Flute: From A to Z
An excellent book on wind technique by a great flutist, the professor of flute at Oberlin Conservatory. Well-written. Straight forward. Good explanation of breathing.
Amazon Price: $40.50 (as of 07/10/2009) 
You Are Your Instrument
Learning to practice and strategies to prevent injuries.
Amazon Price: $19.55 (as of 07/10/2009)
Math & Music
"Scholars have long been fascinated by the by connection between mathematics and music. -AMF
See this recently published paper:
Perspectives
MUSIC THEORY:
Geometrical Music Theory
by Rachel Wells Hall
Musical operations, such as transpositions, can be expressed as symmetries of n-dimensional space.
In Science 18 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5874, p. 389
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5874.389b
If you are not a Science subscriber perhaps you would enjoy listening to their podcast on a geometric model of music.
Easiest and Most Difficult Instruments
from the Guinness Book of World Records, 1989
"The American Music Conference announced in Sept 1977 that the easiest instrument is the ukelele and the most difficult are the French horn and the oboe. The latter has been described as "the ill woodwind that no one blows good." Competitions/Master Classes
- OctOBOEfest - The University of Iowa School of Music
- October 12-14, 2007
Oboe Competition | OctOBOEfest Events | Registration
This year concert artists include Mark Weiger, Alan Huckleberry(piano),
Gordon Hunt, Clapp Maia String Quartet and various guest artists.
Master Classes by: Gordon Hunt, Peter Cooper & Dick Woodhams. - BYU Conferences and Workshops - International Double Reed Society 2008
- BYU Conferences and Workshops - International Double Reed Society 2008
B R I G H A M Y O U N G U N I V E R S I T Y
Salt Lake Center International Double Reed - Hidden Valley Music Seminars at Carmel Valley, California
- Hidden Valley Music Seminars
Carmel Valley, CaliforniaHidden Valley, an Institute of the Performing Arts is nestled in the glorious, scenic Carmel Valley just ten miles from the internationally famous Monterey/Carmel area.
Elaine Douvas,
principal oboe,
Metropolitan Opera
July 6-11 - Double Reed Festival - Department of Music - Lipscomb University
- Lipscomb University hosts a Double Reed Festival for oboists and bassoonists throughout Middle Tennessee and surrounding regions April 24-25, 2009. Festival events will begin on Friday evening, April 24, 2009 with a recital featuring Guest Artists Jeffrey Rathbun (associate principal oboe, Cleveland Orchestra) and Steven Wilson (bassoon, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington D.C.).
NYPhil Principal Oboist - Liang Wang's Oboe Lesson #1
NYPhil Principal Oboist - Liang Wang's Oboe Lesson #1
Oboe Student: Tessa Gross http://mucony.com The world's renowned oboist, Liang Wang joined the New York Philharmonic in September 2006 as Principal Oboe. Previously, he was principal oboe of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (2005--06), and principal oboe of the Santa Fe Opera in the 2004--05 season.
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Al Di Meola and Rhythm
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Al Di Meola discusses rhythm techniques backstage in an interview with Stu Bull. Courtesy of LickLibrary.com.
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Circular Breathing
Terry Ewell of the IDRS has created some video on circular breathing.
- Circular breathing exercise 1: oboe my love for young oboists
- circular breathing exercise for oboe & oboist. traing muscles of cheek
- Circular breathing exercise 2 : oboe my love help for young oboists
- circular breathing for oboe & oboist reform your general idea and get new concept
- All process of circular breathing : Oboe my love for young oboist
- While doing a long tone,You puff out cheeks gradually,Before stopping air from lungs in an area of a throat
- 2reed.net Bassoon Digital Professor
- Circular Breathing by Terry Ewell, IDRS
Exercises
- Daily exercise short scales : oboe my love for young oboists
- This page explanate Daily exercises for oboe short scale
- Daily exercise long scales : oboe my love for young oboists
- About an oboe, Because a lot of stamina is necessary for a performance, the general opinion mentioned above is not suited.
Multiphonics
- List of multiphonics : oboe my love help for young oboists
- By this list,You can easily find a multiphonique including an interval of the temperament which you want.
Link Lists
Vibrato
- Vibrato
- PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library
of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life
science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links
to full text articles and other related resources. - IDRS forum / Bibliography for "X-Ray" Study of Vibrato on Double Reeds
- bibliography
- IDRS forum / Dr. L. Hugh Cooper's thoughts on Vibrato
- Nice discussion on vibrato
Flutter Tonguing
- Jacqueline Leclair - Flutter Tonguing
- All this we hear about flutter-tonguing requiring a "knack", or being a genetically endowed skill seems inaccurate to me. The tongue is by far the most agile, sophisticated and impressive muscle (4 groups of muscles) in the human body.
Double Tonguing
- IDRS forum / Double Tonguing Bibliography
- Double Tonguing bibliography by Terry Ewell, IDRS Moderator
- 2reed.net Bassoon Digital Professor
- Double Reed information on tonguing from Terry Ewell's website
- YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
- Terry Ewell's YouTube videos
Pick a Topic, See if it's out There
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
- Center for the History of Music Theory and LiteratureThomas J. Mathiesen, DirectorPeter Slemon, Associate Director
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN MUSICOLOGY-ONLINEWelcome to DDM-Online! DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topic
Do Your Own Research
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
- Center for the History of Music Theory and LiteratureThomas J. Mathiesen, DirectorPeter Slemon, Associate Director
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN MUSICOLOGY-ONLINEWelcome to DDM-Online! DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topic - Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary
- If you don't know what it means, look it up. If you don't understand what it says, ask your teacher. Your teacher or an expert may know how to put things into context.
Educational Opportunities
- Interlochen :: Arts Academy Boarding High School :: Music
- Interlochen, Dan Stolper teacher here and produces many fine oboists
- The Curtis Institute of Music
- Considered one of the finest music conservatories in the world, The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia trains exceptionally gifted young musicians for performing careers on the highest professional level.
Misc.
- Oboe Fingering Software - The Woodwind Fingering Guide
- "The Woodwind Fingering Guide is proud to introduce Franco Gerevini's Oboe Fingerings software, a small Windows utility for oboists..."
IDRS forum
- IDRS forum / Tonguing Exercises
- IDRS forum
Know the style
- The Project Gutenberg eBook, Music Notation and Terminology, by Karl W. Gehrkens « rixonology.org
- rixonology.org
art for the masses The Project Gutenberg eBook, Music Notation and Terminology, by Karl W. Gehrkens
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Music Notation and Terminology, by Karl W. Gehrkens
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions wh - Amazon.com: Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression: David McGill: Books
- Amazon.com: Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression: David McGill: Books
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