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Definition: Oboe di caccia
Oboe
\O"boe\, n. [It., fr. F. hautbois. See
Hautboy.] (Mus.)
One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra,
yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality
of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more
slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.
[1913 Webster]
Oboe d'amore [It., lit., oboe of love], and
Oboe di caccia
[It., lit., oboe of the chase], are names of obsolete
modifications of the oboe, often found in the scores of
Bach and Handel.
[1913 Webster]