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
}
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\layout {
indent = 2\cm
short-indent = 2\cm
}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/e/u/eumpnc9u7soaxxbzee6d7djomkbf9fa/eumpnc9u.png)
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