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Douglas Yeo celebrates serpent's lure
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Douglas Yeo, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's bass trombonist, has
mastered the serpent.
The serpent is an S-shaped instrument invented in 1590 to
accompany chanting in churches; right through the 18th century there
were four professors of serpent on the faculty of the Paris
Conservatoire, and eight additional staff serpentists. More
recently P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) composed a work for the 400th
birthday of the serpent. "It looks like a serpent," Schickele said,
"but it sounds like a cow."
"A very nice cow," Yeo adds. In recent years the serpent has
gathered a small, intensely devoted ...
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So who's John Williams?(Features)
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The accommodating Serpent and God's grace in paradise lost.(Critical essay)
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Year of the Serpent upon us
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