The Meaning of Taille de Hautbois
**Taille de hautbois** refers to the tenor oboe, which was pitched in the key of F and used during the Baroque era. It had a straight body, an open bell, and two keys.
The taille de hautbois first appeared in Jean-Baptiste Lully's Alcidiane in 1658 and was used in French oboe bands called bandes de hautbois. The taille de hautbois typically played the inner tenor parts in polyphonic compositions.
Composers such as J.S. Bach employed the taille de hautbois to double the viola parts in some of his works when a lower-pitched oboe was needed.
The French term for tenor oboe.
In addition, you can familiarize yourself with the terms:
- [English] tenor oboe
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