Oboe: alternatives and connections

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a v…

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to gene…

A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instr…

A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in mil…

A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.

The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.

Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…

Disjoining two fourths; as, the diazeutic tone, which, like that from F to G in modern music, lay between two fourths, and, being join…

From a remoter or higher antiquity.

A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from wh…

A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem…

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechani…

The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition…

Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative.