Performer Guides

Use this guide to find resources for music performance, including LC call number browsing ranges for repertoire, books, and journals..

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Finding Repertoire for the Oboe:

If you're looking for new repertoire to perform, it is often helpful to browse the Music Library's scores. The following call number ranges are for oboe music; individual works within these numbers are arranged alphabetically by composer or arranger:

M65-M69, oboe alone
M245-M247, oboe and piano
M1022, oboe with orchestra (full score)
M1023, oboe with orchestra (piano reduction)
M1122, oboe with string orchestra (full score)
M1123, oboe with string orchestra (piano reduction)

Excerpts, etudes, and instructional materials are classified in the MT range and housed in the same location as books about music (MLs):

MT360, General works
MT362, Systems and methods
MT365, Studies and exercises
MT366, Orchestral studies (excerpts)

Selected Books on the Oboe and Oboists

Great Oboists on Music and Musicianship

Oboe Unbound: Contemporary Techniques

Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Secrets for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Oboe Reedmaking

Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe if You Can't Peel a Mushroom?

The Oboe

The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy, 1640-1760

Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music

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