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Story of the Flute

1868 (Svendsen and Card), and by Madame Albani and Messrs. Fransella and Warner-Hollis at the Norwich Festival of 1899. Bach has accompanied a soprano aria with two flutes in several of his works, and Verdi accompanies the soprano and contralto voices in his "Agnus Dei" (Requiem) with three flutes: these, however, are not, strictly speaking, obligatos.

The Italian operatic composers, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, etc., write melodious passages for the flute,Italian
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often in unison with the voice or the violin. A notable obligato occurs in the mad scene in Lucia de Lammermoor, which has given rise to the remark that whenever the principal female character in opera becomes distraught with passion or grief, her recovery is marked by a flute

Rossini, Overture, Scmiramide.


\new Staff \with {midiInstrument = "flute"} \relative c'' {
  \key d \major
  \acciaccatura {gis8} a4\p \acciaccatura {gis8} a4 \acciaccatura{gis8} a4 \acciaccatura {gis8} a4
  e'2.\accent \tuplet 3/2 {d8 b cis}
  \tuplet 3/2 {a8(\staccato cis\staccato e)\staccato} a2\accent \tuplet 3/2 {gis8( b a)}
  \tuplet 3/2 {fis8 gis a} b4~\accent \tuplet 3/2 4 {b8 fis gis a b a}
  \omit TupletNumber
  \tuplet 3/2 4 {g dis( fis e) bis( dis! cis) gis( bis a) fis cis'}
  \tuplet 3/2 4 {b( b') a\staccato 
                   gis\staccato fis\staccato e\staccato 
                   dis\staccato cis\staccato b\staccato 
                   a\staccato g\staccato fis\staccato}
  \tuplet 3/2 4 {e\staccato g'( fis) d\staccato fis( e) cis\staccato e( d) b\staccato d( cis)}
  \acciaccatura {gis8} a4_"etc."
}
obligato! Rossini frequently combines the flute with the oboe or clarinet in rapid passages; as in the overtures to La Gazza Ladra and Semiramide, in the latter the above well-known passage is given first to the

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