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Story of the Flute

cantata, The Spectre's Bride. In this work he has allotted the instrument a most charming obligato toDvořák the principal soprano aria ("Oh, Virgin Mother"), in which he shows how fully he appreciated its lower register, going down to the lowest note. In his Stabat Mater and his Sclavonic

Dvořák, The Spectre's Bride, "Where art thou, Father?"

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Rhapsody he uses the low B—a note not found on most flutes—and in his Second Symphony the topmost C♮. In The Spectre's Bride he employs the flute to imitate the persistent crowing of the cock at sunrise, and also to

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