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.
![\new Staff \with {
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} \relative c'' {
\key ees \major
\tempo "Allegretto moderato"
\tweak text "bis."
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\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
}
}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/4/3/435w3ikis6pltazlzkehi5fe1x6vnra/435w3iki.png)
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.
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