They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

The standard concert flute is pitched in the key of C and has a range of three octaves starting from middle C ( or one half-step lower, when a B foot is attached to the instrument ).

This means that the concert flute is one of the highest common orchestral instruments, with the exception of the piccolo, which plays an octave higher.

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

Program # 0 may be a piano on one instrument, or a flute on another.

Other common groupings in classical music are the woodwind quintet, usually consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn and the brass quintet, consisting of two trumpets, one french horn, a trombone and a tuba.

In hand vibrato, the player applies a gentle motion to one end of the pan flute ( usually the high end ) in much the same way as the violin vibrato is achieved by rocking the hand from the wrist.

A concerto ( from the, plural concerti or, often, the anglicised form concertos ) is a musical composition usually composed in four parts or movements, in which ( usually ) one solo instrument ( for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute ) is accompanied by an orchestra.

He wrote one concerto each for flute, oboe ( later rearranged for flute and known as Flute Concerto No. 2 ), clarinet, and bassoon, four for horn, a Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, a Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, and Exsultate, jubilate, a de facto concerto for soprano voice.

Schoenberg has also attracted at least one parodist: in 1924, Hans Eisler published Palmström ( Studies on 12-tone Rows ), in which a Sprechstimme vocalist, singing texts by Christian Morgenstern, parodies the musical lines of Pierrot to the accompaniment of flute ( or piccolo ), clarinet, violin ( or viola ), and violincello.

In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas () is a central figure in two stories involving death: in one, he picked up the double flute ( aulos ) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it ; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life.

In Nielsen's words: " There are among other things four cadenzas for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and flute which run quite freely alongside one another, with no harmonic connection, and without my marking time.

In his Kitab al-shifa ( Book of soul healing ), he proposed another taxonomy, this one having 5 classes: fretted instruments, unfretted ( open ) stringed, lyres and harps, bowed stringed, wind ( reeds and some other woodwinds, such as the flute and bagpipe ), other wind instrumets such as the organ, and the stick-struck santur ( a board zither ).

The 1926 orchestration, rarely heard today, is an adaptation of the original for a " pit " orchestra, which includes a single flute, oboe and bassoon, two horns, two trumpets and one trombone, as well as the same percussion and strings complement as the later 1942 version.

He also took up the flute again, and was appointed one of the pope's court musicians.

One ancient account linked him romantically with a flute girl who subsequently gave her name, Nanno, to one of his two books.

While on one such journey in Texas, he rediscovered his native and untutored talent for the flute and decided to travel to the northeast in hopes of finding employment as a musician in an orchestra.

* Haydn wrote three trios for flute, cello & piano ( H. 15 / 15-17 ), a combination for which Carl Maria von Weber also wrote one work ( op.

The potential strength of the college orchestra, including fee-paying instrumental students, was 33 violins, five violas, six cellos, one double bass, one flute, one oboe and two horns.

The name on the sign that marks the hill is " Taumata ­ whakatangihanga ­ koauau ­ o ­ tamatea ­ turi ­ pukakapiki ­ maunga ­ horo ­ nuku ­ pokai ­ whenua ­ kitanatahu ", which translates roughly as " The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one ".

Coleman is a flute player and has taken several flutes with her to the ISS, including a pennywhistle from Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, an old Irish flute from Matt Molloy of The Chieftains, and a flute from Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

He composed several elegies celebrating his love for the flute girl Nanno, and though fragmentary today his poetry was clearly influential in the later Roman development of the form.

The flute has also always been an essential part of Indian culture and mythology, and the cross flute believed by several accounts to originate in India as Indian literature from 1500 BCE has made vague references to the cross flute.

This is why a police whistle, a form of flute, is very wide for its pitch, and why a pipe organ can be far louder than a concert flute: a large organ pipe can contain several cubic feet of air, and its tone hole may be several inches wide, while a concert flute's air stream measures a fraction of an inch across.

The curved-style pan flute was popularized by the Romanian musician Gheorghe Zamfir, who toured extensively and recorded many albums of pan flute music in the 1970s, and by several other artists who began recording at the same time.

The French soloist Jean-Pierre Rampal notably recorded several Mercadante concertos for flute and string orchestra, including the grand and romantic E minor concerto, which has since gained some popularity among concert flautists.

In addition to large holes, Boehm provided his flute with " full venting ", meaning that all keys were normally open ( previously, several keys were normally closed, and opened only when the key was operated ).

In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an " operita ", María de Buenos Aires, that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano / narrator bar-room scena straight out of Casablanca.

He sang in a choir, played drums and flute, and published several original pieces of sacred music.

Dolphy's mother, Sadie, who had fond memories of her son practicing in the studio by her house, gave instruments that Dolphy had bought in France but never played to Coltrane, who subsequently played the flute and bass clarinet on several albums before his own death in 1967.

Pecchio, formerly of the band The Poppy, was also a flute player, a talent that would later be showcased on several Glass Harp's songs.

Bebop saxophone and flute player, Recorded with Carlos Santana, Joe Henderson, Earl Hines, Freddie Hubbard and several other jazz notables.

While he had long been fascinated by birdsong, and birds had made appearances in several of his earlier works ( for example La Nativité, Quatuor and Vingt regards ), the flute piece was based entirely on the song of the blackbird.

Zöller was a tremendous supporter of new music and commissioned flute concerti from several composers.

Besides playing the flute both in orchestras and as a soloist, he is a conductor, and spent several years exclusively as an orchestra and opera conductor.

In despair, he picks several stalks to form a flute and plays a melancholy air.

The oldest flute ever discovered may be a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear, with two to four holes, found at Divje Babe in Slovenia and dated to about 43, 000 years ago.

During the last glacial period, present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Neanderthals ; the most famous Neanderthal archeological site in Slovenia is a cave close to the village of Šebrelje near Cerkno, where the Divje Babe flute, the oldest known musical instrument in the world was found in 1995.

Whistles are a prevalent starting instrument in English traditional music, Scottish traditional music and Irish traditional music, since they are often cheap ( under US $ 10 ), relatively easy to start with ( no tricky embouchure such as found with the flute ), and the fingerings are nearly identical to those on the traditional six holed flute ( Irish flute, baroque flute ).

* Malagasy cultural traditions shared with Austronesians of Taiwan, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines including ancient customs, such as burying the dead within a canoe in the sea or in a lake, the cultivation of traditional Austronesian crops such as taro orsaonjo, banana, coconut, and sugar cane, traditional architecture with a square house plan, music and musical instruments such as the Antsiva conch, the hazolahy drum, the atranatrana xylophone, sodina flute, or the valiha tube zither, and dance, including the " bird dance " found both in central and southern regions.

This technique of vocalizing into a flute can also be found in folk music as far west as the Balkans and Hungary.

The tin whistle and flute, can be found in such bands as Cruachan, Waylander and Eluveitie.

The tin whistle and flute can be found in such Celtic metal bands as Cruachan, Waylander and Eluveitie.

The flute can also be found in other bands such as Metsatöll, Schandmaul and Morgenstern.

The music of the 1950s is fundamentally lyric in style, though there are comparatively few long-breathed melodies ; two such can be found in the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli, and the Piano Concerto opens with a long tune for high piano and flute, creating " a sustained crescendo, thirty-three bars long leading to a sonorous tutti "( David Matthews ).

Instruments, such as the Saraswati veena and / or venu flute, can be occasionally found as a rhythmic accompaniment, but usually, a vocalist is supported by a violin player ( who sits on his / her left ).

The oldest known musical instruments have been found here, too: flutes made from the bones of swans and griffon vultures, some 35, 000 years old, and in 2004 a flute carved from the tusk of a mammoth dating from the Ice Age, around 37, 000 years ago, and the oldest representation of the human body, the Venus of Schelklingen.

The Tsuur, also known as choor, is an end-blown flute that is found in western Mongolia.

The Divje Babe flute, an artifact found in a cave near Cerkno, Slovenia, is possibly the oldest known musical instrument ever.

During the excavation a number of human remains were found along with a bone flute, a human rib and some worked flints and stone.

A medley of ideas drawn from the clarinet, flute, oboe and ophicleide, the saxophone was intended to form a tonal link between the clarinets and brass instruments found in military bands, an area which Sax considered sorely lacking.

Gudi flute found at Jiahu, on display at the Henan Museum

* Bone flute found in China at 9, 000-year-old Neolithic site

A bone flute found at L ' Anse Amour in Labrador is the first evidence of the presence of music in Newfoundland and Labrador.

A nature god usually found haunting the deep woods of the Ramtops, in which he manifests himself as an oak tree or a flute playing half-man, half-goat figure.

The end of this era found the publication of Essay of a Method of Playing the Transverse Flute by Quantz, considered the greatest exposition on flute method of its time.