Has anybody heard of an oboe`dacaccia, not an oboe`damorre. If you have a link that has a MIDI file with an oboe`dacaccia or if you information about this instrument please post it or send it to: ellynpetsmart@sbcglobal.net

Oboe da caccia is the Baroque term for the Englsih Horn. It literally means hunting oboe.

Oboe da caccia, Johann Gottlieb Weigelt
Breslau, ca. 1740

It was very used from Bach. it`s a "tenor oboe" and it`s like an english horn, a fifth under the oboe (sorry don`t know the correct way to express this but I hope you understand).

It was called "da caccia" because it had a semicircular shape, very similar to the corno da caccia (hunting horn), but its sound is very sweet and melanchonic, nothing to do with hunting

i always thought it WAS an english horn. so their different... interesting!

No, in Italy we call the English Horn "corno inglese"

The oboe d`caccia is a bit like an english horn, but the reeds are different ( more like little bassoon reeds than modern english horn reeds ). Also it`s in a different shape than the english horn. I`ll see if I can find a picture of one.

Here is a pic of an oboe d`caccia, and an oboe d`caccia reed;

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cbrodersen/Oboedacaccia.html

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