Story of the Flute
at the devil's words, "Shake the casements," he gives them a rapid staccato descending passage. The dying
Sullivan, Golden Legend. "Shake the casements."
away of the storm is portrayed by chromatic passages, gradually descending from the C♯ in altissimo, on the flutes. In the sixth scene there is the long passage for
Sullivan, Golden Legend, Sc. vi.
![\new GrandStaff <<
\new Staff = "top" \with {midiInstrument = "flute"} \relative c'' {
\key des \major
\time 3/4
\tempo "Andante tranquillo"
\ottava #1
<< {aes''2.\p} \\ {aes,2~ aes16 f' des ees} >>
<< {aes2 aes8. ges16} \\ {f ees aes, c des4~ des8. c16} >>
\autoBeamOff
<< {f[ ees des c]} \\ {des8[ aes]} >> <aes des>16[ aes bes aes] bes[ des c ees]
\autoBeamOn
<aes, des>( aes <aes aes'> aes \appoggiatura {c8} bes16 aes bes des c ees aes, <c ges>)
}
\new Staff = "bottom" \with {midiInstrument = "flute"} \relative c'' {
\key des \major
\time 3/4
\tempo "Andante tranquillo"
r1*3/4
r4 r16 aes'( f ges aes f des ees)
<< {f8.( ees16 f des ges f ges f ees f} \\ {d,2.~} >>
<< {f'16 ees f des ges f ges f ees4)} \\ {d,2.} >>
}
>>](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/k/d/kdx9i9dame5ornr5rqrh8x23678orwg/kdx9i9da.png)
two flutes and piccolo in imitation of bells, and in the first scene we have a very peculiar effect produced by an accompaniment of two flutes and two piccolos—the
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