Research Guides: Oboe: Performance Practice

Performance Practice Resources for Oboe

The UO Libraries Music Collection includes the following guides to various aspects of oboe performance practice:

Historical Methods

Rudiments of the flute, recorder & oboe (Principes de la flûte) by Jacques Hotteterre, 1673-1763
Call Number: MT342.H7414 1968c
Publication Date: 1968; originally published 1707
Méthode nouvelle et raisonnée pour le hautbois : divisée en deux parties by Amand Vanderhagen, 1753-1822
Call Number: MT362.F83 1974
Publication Date: 1974; originally published 1792
On Playing Oboe, Recorder, and Flageolet by J. P. Poncein
Call Number: MT362 .F813 1992
Publication Date: 1992; originally published 1700

Contemporary Methods

Oboe Art and Method by Martin Schuring
Call Number: MT360 .S38 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Oboe Technique by Evelyn Rothwell
Call Number: MT360.R8 1982
Publication Date: 1983
Oboe by Leon Goossens
Call Number: MT360 .G66 1977b
Publication Date: 1977
The Oboist's Companion by Evelyn Rothwell
Call Number: MT360.R83
Publication Date: 1975
Essays for Oboists: More "Straight Talk" About Achieving Success as an Oboist (Or Any Other Wind Player) by Jay Light
Call Number: ML943.L53 E8
Publication Date: 1994
Approaches to the Pedagogy of Selected Musical Devices Characteristic of Twentieth-Century Oboe Music by Richard Henderson
Call Number: MT360 .H4
Publication Date: 1970
UO D.M.A. thesis

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