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Story of the Flute

considered it to be a joke on the composer's part. The most remarkable flute passage in the immortal nine is that known as "Langage des Oiseaux," at the conclusionThe
Famous
Passage
in the
"Pastorale"
of the andante in the "Pastorale" Symphony, where, amidst the murmurs of the stream, we suddenly hear the voices of the cuckoo (clarinet), quail (oboe), and nightingale, the last-named being reproduced by a trilling passage on the flute. Grove says that these "imitations, or rather caricatures," were intended by Beethoven as a joke of the most open kind, and adds "how completely are the

Beethoven, Pastorale Symphony.


\new Grandstaff <<
  \new Staff = "flute" \with {
    instrumentName = \markup \center-column {
                                              "FLUTE."
                                              "(Nightingale.)"
                                            }
    midiInstrument = "flute"
  } \relative c'' {
    \key bes \major
    \time 12/8
    \tempo "Andante"
    r4 r8 r4 f8~ f r f~ f r f(
    \autoBeamOff
    g)[ f] r g([ f)] r g([ f)] g16([\accent f)] g([\accent f)] g([\accent f)] g([\accent f)]
    f1.\startTrillSpan
    ees4.( f16)([\stopTrillSpan e] f8) r r2.
    \partial 2 r4  f8~ f^\markup \right-column {"Phrase" "repeated."}
  }
  \new Staff = "oboe" \with {
    instrumentName = \markup \center-column {
                                              "OBOE."
                                              "(Quail.)"
                                            }
    midiInstrument = "oboe"
  } \relative c'' {
    \key bes \major
    \time 12/8
    \tempo "Andante"
    R1*12/8
    r2. r4 r8 r r d'16. d32
    d8 r r r4 d16. d32 d8 r r r4 d16. d32
    d8 r d16. d32 d8 r r r2.
    \partial 2 r2
  }
  \new Staff = "clarinet" \with {
    instrumentName = \markup \center-column {
                                              "CLARINET."
                                              "(Cuckoo.)"
                                            }
    midiInstrument = "clarinet"
  } \relative c'' {
    \transposition bes
    \key c \major
    \time 12/8
    \tempo "Andante"
    R1*12/8
    R1*12/8
    e8 c r r4 r8 e c r r4 r8
    e c r e c r r2.
    \partial 2 r2
  }
  \new Staff = "violin" \with {
    \RemoveAllEmptyStaves
    instrumentName = "VIOLIN."
    shortInstrumentName = "VIOLIN."
    midiInstrument = "violin"
  } \relative c'' {
    \key bes \major
    \time 12/8
    \tempo "Andante"
    R1*12/8
    R1*12/8
    R1*12/8
    r4 r8 r4 bes8(\p \grace {bes8} a)( g f) f( g a)
    \partial 2 bes r r4
  }
>>
\layout {
  indent = 2\cm
  short-indent = 2\cm
}

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