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Definition of Heckelphone
1. Noun. An oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heckelphone
Literary usage of Heckelphone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Richard Strauss by Ernest Newman (1921)
"His appetite for increased wood-wind, horns, and brass, for new instruments, such
as the heckelphone that is used in Salome, and for older instruments, ..."
2. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"The oboe d'amore, which is an oboe of deeper pitch, has been prominently used by
Richard Strauss in his "Sinfonia Domestica," and the heckelphone, ..."
3. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (1919)
"... denied that through his subsequent enlargement of the orchestral apparatus by
the introduction of new instruments (oboe damore, celesta, heckelphone), ..."
4. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... heckelphone, celesta or xylophone, while the percussion group may include
drums, triangle, gongs, cymbals, tambourine, etc. Thus we find a Wagner score ..."
5. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"... sixteen wood-wind instruments (four flutes, four oboes — one of them a
heckelphone — four clarinets, and four bassoons) ; eighteen brasses (four horns, ..."
6. The Grand Opera Singers of To-day: An Account of the Leading Operatic Stars by Henry Charles Lahee (1912)
"In addition to new effects on old instruments, new instruments were introduced,
notably the " heckelphone," which is described as a cross between an English ..."
7. Strauss' "Salome": A Guide to the Opera, with Musical Illustrations by Lawrence Gilman (1907)
"... i English horn; i heckelphone (a recently manufactured instrument of the "
reed " family, named after its inventor, Heckel, which may be described as ..."
8. A Guide to Modern Opera: Description & Interpretation of the Words & Music by Esther Singleton (1909)
"The score calls for 111 performers in the orchestra, and among the instruments
are two basset-horns, a heckelphone, eight horns, six trumpets, five tubas, ..."
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