Oboe's predecessor

Usage examples of shawm.

French, who did not yet understand the sublime elevation that separated the Greek emperors born in the purple from all other earthly potentates, were at first surprised that Manuel did not, according to the custom of the West, come out of his city processionally with shawms and viols to welcome the most Christian King of the Franks and his baronage, but sent them only emissaries who with salaams directed them to pitch their tents outside the walls at the tip of the Golden Horn.

While his sister kept the smaller girls, Shawm ran for the midwoman of the stave.

He was about to say more when the music of hornpipe, shawm, and sackbut started up.

Am Steg, Shawm striding just ahead with frequent glances back as if to make sure she still followed.

Turning abruptly, Shawm handed the baby to Picardy and opened a small door at the side of the jig.

The effect is produced with a minimum of means: the human voice, droning or chanting in low registers, progressing by semi- and quarter-tones, and a small number of wind and percussion instruments - cymbals, bells, shawms, trumpets and drums -which made up the temple orchestra, but also had separate functions.

In this connection it becomes natural that the dances should have been performed according to a precise ritual to the sound of drums, shawms and trumpets, all instruments connected with worship.

A branle was forming in the hallway like a fifteenth-century conga line, accompanied only by Felix Arabia on shawm, resembling a Bosch demon in a genial moment.

Vagabond-musicians played raucous airs on shawms and pennywhistles, Vagabond-actors performed a comedy in zargon, stray dogs copulated in the family chapel, and Jack, presiding over all at the head of the table, dressed in the rich man’s satin, almost fell asleep.

It was run nominally by an Austrian named Vogt, who worked painstakingly during the daylight hours putting together rebecs, shawms and theorbos, and spied at night.