"Creation" Flute Parts
third part, three flutes are used to depict the earthly paradise. The third flute was apparently to be played
Haydn, The Creation, "On Mighty Pens."
by the oboe-player, as it is written into his part. Macfarren has said of this passage, "The morning of
Haydn, The Creation. Opening, Part III.
the world, with all the freshness and stillness of our loveliest summer-tide experience, might by such gentle sounds indeed be wakened to find the pulse"The
Creation" of nature vibrating in soft harmonies like priestly voices from the ancient statue [of Memnon] to greet its dawning." Haydn shows great skill in combining the flute with several other instruments; thus in the opening of his "Military" symphony
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