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shawm

WordNet
Five wind players side by side play the shawm, the zinc, the dulcian and the trombone.
Five wind players side by side play the shawm, the zinc, the dulcian and the trombone.
  1. (n) shawm
    a medieval oboe
Illustrations
Farmers and children listening to a shawm and a violin player, in front of a house.
Farmers and children listening to a shawm and a violin player, in front of a house.
A shepherd playing on a shawm walks among his flock of sheep, followed by a dog, goats, an ox and a donkey.
A shepherd playing on a shawm walks among his flock of sheep, followed by a dog, goats, an ox and a donkey.
In the oval, a donkey-eared man plays a shawm, surrounded by birds, insects and stylized scrollwork. Around the oval five ornaments are grouped with stylized white scrolls on a black background. From a series of 6 leaves with black ornaments with patterns for enamel work.
In the oval, a donkey-eared man plays a shawm, surrounded by birds, insects and stylized scrollwork. Around the oval five ornaments are grouped with stylized white scrolls on a black background. From a series of 6 leaves with black ornaments with patterns for enamel work.
A shepherdess and shepherdess with their flock. The shepherd blows a shawm.
A shepherdess and shepherdess with their flock. The shepherd blows a shawm.
Hilly landscape with a drop and three shepherds with sheep, one of which plays a shawm.
Hilly landscape with a drop and three shepherds with sheep, one of which plays a shawm.
In the front left two musicians playing the shawm. The music is danced by a bridal couple and a few young couples in contemporary and old-fashioned clothing. On the right, a man stands against a tree, looking at the scene through his goggles. A church tower in the background.
In the front left two musicians playing the shawm. The music is danced by a bridal couple and a few young couples in contemporary and old-fashioned clothing. On the right, a man stands against a tree, looking at the scene through his goggles. A church tower in the background.
Musicians join the procession in honor of the general Julius Caesar. Two men blow a shawm, one boy is holding a tambourine and another is playing a lyre. Behind them are representatives of different regions and cities.
Musicians join the procession in honor of the general Julius Caesar. Two men blow a shawm, one boy is holding a tambourine and another is playing a lyre. Behind them are representatives of different regions and cities.
Soprano duytse schalmey made of brown boxwood with brass edges. The pirouettes and cup pins have been lost. Marked between the third and fourth hole: R. HAKA [in a scroll with a lily].
Soprano duytse schalmey made of brown boxwood with brass edges. The pirouettes and cup pins have been lost. Marked between the third and fourth hole: R. HAKA [in a scroll with a lily].
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Shawm
    (Mus) A wind instrument of music, formerly in use, supposed to have resembled either the clarinet or the hautboy in form. "Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) shawm
    A musical instrument of the oboe class, having a double reed inclosed in a globular mouthpiece. It was akin to the musette and the bagpipe, and passed over into the bassoon. The word survives in the chalumeau register of the clarinet. It is inaccurately used in the Prayer-book version of the 98th Psalm for cornet or horn. Compare bombard, 6.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Shawm
    a musical instrument of the oboe class, having a double reed enclosed in a globular mouthpiece.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. shalmie, OF. chalemie,; cf. F. chalumeau, shawm, chaume, haulm, stalk; all fr. L. calamus, a reed, reed pipe. See Haulm, and cf. Calumet

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. chalemie—L. calamus, a reed-pipe.

Usage in the news

Odessa native Stef Collins returns home after the Olympic Games, plus, former Pioneers manager Dan Shawm lands in Cooperstown to coach the Hawkeyes. eny.com

Odessa native Stef Collins returns home after the Olympic Games, plus, former Pioneers manager Dan Shawm lands in Cooperstown to coach the Hawkeyes. eny.com

Usage in literature

But we 'm friends, by your awn shawm', and I be glad 't is so. "Children of the Mist" by Eden Phillpotts

It was evolved in the sixteenth century from the pommers and bombards: the tenors and basses of the shawm or oboe family. "Scientific American Supplement No. 819" by Various

Shawms were made of various sizes, from the small treble instrument, one foot long, to the huge affair, six feet in length. "Springtime and Other Essays" by Francis Darwin

Then go, my girls, dance in the meadows to the sound of bagpipes and shawms. "The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere" by Charles de Coster

Already we seem to hear the shawms and sackbuts. "Recollections and Impressions" by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

All at once rang, droned, thundered, thumped, squealed, brayed, clattered bells, bagpipes, shawms, drums, and ironmongery. "The Legend of Ulenspiegel" by Charles de Coster

Usage in poetry
Also the chosen of the years,
The multitude being at ease,
With sackbuts and with dulcimers
And noise of shawms and psalteries
Made mirth within the ears of these.
"Aholibah" by Algernon Charles Swinburne Author object (28)
"The time has come," the Vulture said,
"To talk of many things,
Of Accidence and Adjectives,
And names of Jewish kings,
How many notes a sackbut has,
And whether shawms have strings."
"The Vulture and the Husbandman" by Arthur Clement Hilton
A dream, to lead my spirit on
With sounds of faery shawms and flutes,
And all mysterious attributes
Of skies of dusk and skies of dawn:
To lead me, like the wandering brooks,
Past all the knowledge of the books.
"Preludes" by Madison Julius Cawein Author object (456)