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Léon Goossens’s Impact on Twentieth-Century English Oboe Repertoire: Phantasy Quartet of Benjamin Britten, Concerto for Oboe and Strings of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sonata for Oboe of York Bowen

Campbell Bailey, Mary L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275918439

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2010, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Oboe.
Léon Goossens (1897–1988) was an English oboist considered responsible for restoring the oboe as a solo instrument. During the Romantic era, the oboe was used mainly as an orchestral instrument, not as the solo instrument it had been in the Baroque and Classical eras. A lack of virtuoso oboists and compositions by major composers helped prolong this status. Goossens became the first English oboist to make a career as a full-time soloist and commissioned many British composers to write works for him. This document examines the result of Goossens’s impact on his contemporaries and English oboe literature by focusing on Benjamin Britten’s Phantasy Quartet, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Concerto for Oboe and Strings, and York Bowen’s Sonata for Oboe. In addition, it explores why Goossens’s playing style was so different than his predecessors, as well as how it shaped the compositions written for him. Each work examined shows the characteristics of Goossens’s style found in the work and discusses the resulting influence it had on English oboe literature.
Mark Ostoich, DMA (Committee Chair)
Rodney Winther, MMus (Committee Member)
bruce mcclung, PhD (Committee Member)
234 p.
Music
Goossens; Britten; Vaughan Williams; Bowen

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  • Campbell Bailey, M. L. (2010). Léon Goossens’s Impact on Twentieth-Century English Oboe Repertoire: Phantasy Quartet of Benjamin Britten, Concerto for Oboe and Strings of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sonata for Oboe of York Bowen [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275918439

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Campbell Bailey, Mary. Léon Goossens’s Impact on Twentieth-Century English Oboe Repertoire: Phantasy Quartet of Benjamin Britten, Concerto for Oboe and Strings of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sonata for Oboe of York Bowen. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275918439.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Campbell Bailey, Mary. "Léon Goossens’s Impact on Twentieth-Century English Oboe Repertoire: Phantasy Quartet of Benjamin Britten, Concerto for Oboe and Strings of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Sonata for Oboe of York Bowen." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275918439

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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