Meyerbeer's Piccolo Passages
represents the whistling of bullets. In Dinorah lightning is imitated by means of an ascending scale on the piccolo, the flute playing a descending scale in the opposite direction. In his Kronungs March we find two piccolos
Meyerbeer, Robert le Diable, Valse Infernale (for voices, piccolo, trumpets and cornets, trombones, tuba, triangle and cymbals).
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midiInstrument = "flute"
} \relative c'' {
\transposition c'
\key d \major
\time 3/4
\tempo "Allegro moderato"
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\bar ":"
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\acciaccatura {e'8} d8*2[\ff \acciaccatura {e8} d8*2 \acciaccatura {e8} d8*2]
}
\acciaccatura {cis8} b8*2[ \acciaccatura {cis8} b8*2 \acciaccatura {cis8} b8*2]
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\tweak text "three times"
\tweak direction #UP
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fis'32*2(\sf g fis g fis g fis g fis g fis g)
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fis16*2([ e)] d8*2[\staccato cis]\staccato
b r
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and two flutes all playing separate parts simultaneously. Two piccolos and two flutes soli are used in L'Êtoile du Nord, and in the Soldiers' March there are four piccolos on the stage, but they play only two distinct parts. In
Ib. Dance of the Nuns.
the overture to Dinorah we again find two piccolos and two flutes used. He frequently uses the piccolo without the flute, and sometimes in very curious combinations—e.g., with the cor anglais or with the bass clarinet. "Piff", paff," sung by the soldier Marcel in The Huguenots (i.) is accompanied solely by the piccolo, cymbals pianissimo, four bassoons, big drum, and double bass pizzicato; the piccolo, as an introduction,
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