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shawm

[ shawm ]

noun

  1. an early musical woodwind instrument with a double reed: the forerunner of the modern oboe.


shawm

/ ʃɔːm /

noun

  1. music a medieval form of the oboe with a conical bore and flaring bell, blown through a double reed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shawm1

1300–50; Middle English schalme < Middle French chaume < Latin calamus stalk, reed < Greek kálamos reed; replacing Middle English schallemele < Middle French chalemel ( chalumeau )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shawm1

C14 shalmye, from Old French chalemie, ultimately from Latin calamus a reed, from Greek kalamos
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Example Sentences

Mr. Savall assembled a Renaissance big band of 24 players, wielding cornetto, shawms, dulcians and sackbuts as well as ancient and newer strings, and a cast of six singers and two actors.

Instrumental contributions were most pleasing when they featured matching instruments, shawms and dulcians together or all recorders, where each overlapping contrapuntal line could be traced in the same timbre.

Then there's an elegant treatment of The Boar's Head, featuring the shawm, a medieval reed instrument, and sturdy a cappella vocal harmonies on the American spiritual Poor Little Jesus.

Shawm, Shalm, shawm, n. a musical instrument of the oboe class, having a double reed enclosed in a globular mouthpiece.

Go, damsels, dance in the meadows to the sound of pipes and shawms.

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