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Definition of Tenoroon
1. Noun. A tenor bassoon; pitched a fifth higher than the ordinary bassoon.
Definition of Tenoroon
1. Noun. (musici) tenor bassoon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenoroon
1. a tenor bassoon [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenoroon
Literary usage of Tenoroon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Native oxid of copper, occurring in steel-gray scales of metallic luster on lava
at Vesuvius. tenoroon (ten-o-ron'), n. and a. ..."
2. The Musical World (1855)
"In what part of the " design" there is anything sufficiently peculiar and
unconventional—(unless it be in the reproduction .of the name " tenoroon," which ..."
3. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments Recently Exhibited at the by Charles Russell Day, David James Blaikley (1891)
"tenoroon, in F. This beautiful instrument is of maplewood, bound with brass. ...
tenoroon, in F, French pitch. This instrument is almost identical with the ..."
4. A complete and comprehensive dictionary of 12, 500 Italian, French, German by John Hiles (1873)
"tenoroon. The old tenor hautboy, the compass of which extended downwards to tenor C.
The name is sometimes the tenoroon either in regard to pitch, ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"D. tenoroon, a name sometimes given to the Tenor Bassoon of Alto Fagotto in F.
It is obviously a modification of the word Bassoon, for which little ..."
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