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Story of the Flute

delicate filigree and arabesques. They use the instrument "rather to ornament and brighten a subject thanModern
French
Composers
to propound it." Sometimes, however, this degenerates into mere tinsel. Perhaps the most noticeable point about the modern use of the flute is the frequency of passages on the lower register, whose peculiar and unique beauty has been fully recognised by many recent composers. No one has more fully grasped the capabilities of the instrument than Bizet—who assigns the

Bizet, Carmen, Act III., Introductory March.


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  instrumentName = "FLUTE."
  midiInstrument = "flute"
} \relative c'' {
  \key ees \major
  \tempo "Allegretto moderato"
  \tweak text "bis."
  \startMeasureSpanner
  \autoBeamOff
  \appoggiatura {aes16[ g f]} g4(\pp c8)[ r16 bes] g4~ g8 r
  \stopMeasureSpanner
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  \autoBeamOn
  bes16 aes!\staccato g\staccato f\staccato 
    ees\staccato d\staccato ees\staccato g\staccato
    f( bes,) c\staccato d\staccato ees8 r
}
\layout {
  indent = 2\cm
  \context {
    \Staff
    \consists Measure_spanner_engraver
  }
}

march in Act iii. of Carmen to the flute, playing staccato and pianissimo in the low register, with fine effect; so again in the Seguidilla, No. 10. Other fine flute passages in this work are the Entr'acte (ii.), where the two flutes play running passages in thirds along

Bizet, Carmen, Seguidilla, No. 10.


\new Staff \with {
  instrumentName = \markup \center-column {
                                            "1st FLUTE ONLY."
                                            "with sustained chords"
                                            "on Strings"
                                          }
  midiInstrument = "flute"
} \relative c'' {
  \key d \major
  \time 3/8
  \tempo "Allegretto"
  cis8(\pp fis gis
  ais b cis)
  d16.( e32) d16\staccato cis\staccato b\staccato ais\staccato
  gis8~ gis16 r r8
  cis,,8(\pp fis gis
  ais b cis)
  d16.( e32) d16\staccato cis\staccato b\staccato a!\staccato
  g!8 g16 r r8
}
\layout {
  indent = 4\cm
}

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