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.

In February 2010, the Australian judge ruled that " Down Under " did contain a flute riff based on " Kookaburra " but stipulated that neither was it necessarily the hook nor a substantial part of the hit song ( Colin Hay wrote the song years before the flute riff was added by a later member of the band ).

The 4th movement of the Concord Sonata for piano ( with a part for flute, Thoreau's instrument ) is a character picture and he also set Thoreau's words.

A basic reed part usually has three or four instruments ( flutes, clarinets and saxophones being the most common ), but can include up to eight instruments, such as the " Reed 3 " part in Bernstein's West Side Story, which calls for the player to use piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor and baritone saxophones.

Many instruments have their range as part of their name: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, baritone horn, alto flute, bass flute, alto recorder, bass guitar, etc.

Adopting a formula successfully employed by Mondonville a few years earlier, these pieces differ from trio sonatas in that the harpsichord is not simply there as basso continuo to accompany other instruments ( the violin, flute or viol ) playing the melody but has an equal part in the " concert " with them.

In 1979 Hartman was replaced by ace session drummer Chet McCracken and Baxter by multi-instrumental string player John McFee ( late of Huey Lewis ' early band Clover ); Cornelius Bumpus ( who had been part of a recent reunion of Moby Grape ) was also recruited to add vocals, keyboards, flute and saxophone to the lineup.

Little is known about how Frederick would have received the score dedicated to him, and whether he tried to solve any riddle or played the flute part of the trio sonata.

The opera requires a cast of 2 female, 1 male, and 1 male child in speaking roles ( for the Wilson production ); a 16 person SATB chamber chorus with an outstanding soprano soloist and a smaller tenor solo part ; 3 reed players: flute ( doubling piccolo and bass clarinet ), soprano saxophone ( doubling flute ), tenor saxophone ( doubling alto saxophone ); solo violin, and 2 synthesizers / electronic organs.

) The aria is known from several piano-vocal scores and is included as an appendix, sung by Ruth Welting with flute and harpsichord accompaniment, as part of the 1978 recording with Marilyn Horne as Mignon.

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The first woodwind part doubles on piccolo, flute, clarinet, and soprano and alto sax ; the second part doubles on oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor sax ; the third part doubles on flute, clarinet, bassoon, and baritone sax.

The Māori kōauau ponga ihu, a gourd nose flute, was also part of the nose flute tradition ; note that a similarly constructed gourd nose flute, ipu ho kio kio was also used in Hawaii.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

* 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 )

In February 2010, Larrikin Music Publishing won a case against the group arising from the uncredited appropriation of " Kookaburra ", originally written in 1934 by Marion Sinclair and for which they owned the publishing rights, as the flute line in the song " Down Under ".

Similarly, in 1969, a park ranger, Neville Fenton, recorded a lyrebird song which resembled flute sounds in the New England National Park, near Dorrigo in northern coastal New South Wales.

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.

The 1968 follow-up LP, In Search of the Lost Chord included " Legend of a Mind ", a song written by Ray Thomas in tribute to LSD guru Timothy Leary which encompassed a flute solo performed by Thomas – four members of the group had taken LSD together at the start of 1967.

In 2000, Bright Eyes released Fevers and Mirrors, with new instruments such as the flute, piano, and accordion introduced into the song arrangements.

He was famous in his day for his performances of a personal composition for the flute called " Black Birds ," which mimics the song of that species.

The fourth album from Goodie, not featuring Cee-Lo, was something of a return to their earlier style. The song Play Your Flute closed the album with a laid back flute driven track Produced by J.

He is also well known for the alto flute solo on the Mamas & Papas song California Dreamin ' recorded in 1965.

" Pipe " may refer to a musical instrument ( perhaps a flute or recorder ), supported by the final lyrics of the song " there's none so rare, As can compare With King Cole and his fiddlers three ", which seem to suggest that King Cole and his fiddlers played music together as a group.

There is at least one popular folk song, originally meant for the shakuhachi ( bamboo flute ), titled " Sakura ", and several pop songs.

# The fourth movement, Scena e canto gitano (" Scene and gypsy song ") opens with five cadenzas — first by the horns and trumpets, then solo violin, flute, clarinet, and harp — played over rolls on various percussion instruments.

Rural folk traditions in Bosnia include the shouted, polyphonic ganga and ravne pjesme ( flat song ) styles, as well as instruments like a droneless bagpipe, wooden flute and sargija.

She also started playing the flute in concerts, during the song " That I Would Be Good ".

Another Guess Who song, " Undun ", featured Cummings on a jazzy flute solo.

Ludwig Van Beethoven composed Theme and Three variations for flute and piano, Op 105, based on the song late in his life. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy composed a Fantasia in E major, Op.

The song " Ruckzuck " is driven by a powerful multi-dubbed flute riff, along with electric violin and guitar ; these instruments often connected to further electronics via an Electronic Music Studios pitch-to-voltage converter.

There is a lengthy instrumental introduction to the first song, in which the cry of the curlew is represented by the cor anglais and the peewit by the flute.

These clocks call the hour with the sound of the trumpet, flute, song bird and rooster respectively.

After his recovery, Stevens negotiated out of his contract with Deram Records and joined with former Yardbirds bassist Paul Samwell-Smith with a stripped down sound, with songs played in spare arrangements on acoustic guitars and keyboards and accompanied by a sparse backing band, consisting only of three other performers: second guitarist Alun Davies, bassist John Ryan, and drummer Harvey Burns — and on one song, " Katmandu "— Peter Gabriel on the flute.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

It is based on of long kacida ( poems ) single rhyme and the monotonous sound of the flute.

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 ).

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.

Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently in disco than in rock.

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family.

Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.

The five-holed flute has a V-shaped mouthpiece and is made from a vulture wing bone.

The earliest extant Chinese transverse flute is a chi ( 篪 ) flute discovered in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng at the Suizhou site, Hubei province, China.

The earliest written reference to a flute is from a Sumerian-language cuneiform tablet dated to c. 2600-2700 BCE.

One of those scales is named embūbum, which is an Akkadian word for " flute ".

As such, Jubal is regarded in the Judeo-Christian tradition as the inventor of the flute ( a word used in some translations of this biblical passage ).

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.

A harmonic is a frequency that is a whole number multiple of a lower register, or " fundamental " note of the flute.

In its most basic form, a flute can be an open tube which is blown like a bottle.

Another division is between side-blown ( or transverse ) flutes, such as the Western concert flute, piccolo, fife, dizi, and bansuri ; and end-blown flutes, such as the ney, xiao, kaval, danso, shakuhachi, Anasazi flute, and quena.