Preface: the authors in conversation
Introduction / Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes
1. prehistory of the oboe / Geoffrey Burgess
2. From consort oboe to 'eloquent' oboe, 1610-1680 / Bruce Haynes
3. sprightly hautboy, 1680-1760 / Bruce Haynes
4. From Classical hautboy to keyed oboe, 1760-1825 / Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess
5. From keyed oboe to the Conservatoire oboe, 1825-1880 / Geoffrey Burgess
6. From Romanticism to Modernism: the adoption and dissemination of the Conservatoire oboe, 1880 to 1950 / Geoffrey Burgess
7. oboe in Romantic and Modernist music: cultural themes and implications / Geoffrey Burgess
8. Diversifying streams since World War II: the traditional stream / Geoffrey Burgess
9. Diversifying streams since World War II: from the avant-garde to Postmodernism / Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes
App. 1. Dimensions for ten reeds, 1691-c.1767
App. 2. Collation of fingering charts
App. 3. use of keys on nineteenth-century oboes.
