Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various early double-reed wind instruments, forerunners of the modern oboe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument of the oboe class, having a double reed inclosed in a globular mouthpiece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a mediaeval double reed wind instrument with conical wooden body
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a medieval oboe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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"shawm" was a musical instrument resembling the clarinet.
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Musicians entertained from the gallery above the kings, offering delicate love songs and lively tunes on harp, lute, and shawm.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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Musicians entertained from the gallery above the kings, offering delicate love songs and lively tunes on harp, lute, and shawm.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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I think he also plays the crummhorn, or maybe the shawm.
my July WriMo update nissa_amas_katoj 2008
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I think he also plays the crummhorn, or maybe the shawm.
Archive 2008-07-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2008
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Musicians entertained from the gallery above the kings, offering delicate love songs and lively tunes on harp, lute, and shawm.
The Tudors: King Takes Queen Elizabeth Massie 2010
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Wherever Kahlan went, she could hear pipes and drums, or the piercing notes of a shawm, or the melodic chords of strings.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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The painting portrays Renaissance instruments with great accuracy: a tenor or alto shawm, a precursor of the English horn; a Gothic harp; a brass trumpet; a portative organ; a vielle, an early form of violin; a soprano or treble shawm, a distant forerunner of the oboe; a lute; three recorders; a dulcimer being struck by a light hammer; and a harp.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The painting portrays Renaissance instruments with great accuracy: a tenor or alto shawm, a precursor of the English horn; a Gothic harp; a brass trumpet; a portative organ; a vielle, an early form of violin; a soprano or treble shawm, a distant forerunner of the oboe; a lute; three recorders; a dulcimer being struck by a light hammer; and a harp.
Ave Regina Caelorum 2009
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I actually wanted to use shawm in the bridging piece, but I don't seem to have one easily to hand -- then again, my organization being what it is, I may have half a dozen sampled shawms and just be clueless.
Moving right along 2007
yarb commented on the word shawm
"Once before he had paused, and love with its horrid rout, its shawms, its cymbals, and its heads with gory locks torn from the shoulders had burst in."
- Orlando, Virginia Woolf.
February 5, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word shawm
"... all in a stifling atmosphere, with people playing shawms outside to prevent the possibility of eavesdropping—shawms in no key known to him or range of intervals..."
--P. O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 138–139
March 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the word shawm
Plus, the shawm is famous for its anti-zombie powers, as evidenced by the cult hit film "Shawm of the Dead".
March 25, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word shawm
"After a little while he no longer heard the drums, the lutes, the flutes (or shawms) as concert, or as any kind of music."
Don Juan: His Own Version by Peter Handke, translated by Krishna Winston, p 56
April 14, 2010
qms commented on the word shawm
A buzzing like angry bees aswarm
Infects the melodious storm.
Amid lilting lutes
And tootling flutes
It's the homely bray of the shawm.
See also sackbut.
August 12, 2014