Flute in Rossini
piccolo and oboe together, then to the flute, and finally to both flute and piccolo.[1] Rossini does not use the piccolo very much, he, however, introduces two in The Bather of Seville at the words "Point de bruit"—probably a joke. He seldom gives the flute a solo of any length; several, however, occur in William Tell. The Andantino in that overture is the best known flute passage in the whole range of orchestralThe
"Willian
Tell"
Overture music; the flute playing a florid embroidery, as it were, to the Alpine "Ranz des Vaches" on the cor anglais. This passage stands out wonderfully: I have seen a first-rate player from the Hallé orchestra actually trembling with nervousness when he approached it. After the final sustained top G had died away into nothing, he remarked to me, "I never come to that passage without shaking all over like an aspen leaf; if
Rossini, Overture to William Tell.
![\new GrandStaff <<
\new Staff = "flute" \with {
instrumentName = "FLUTE."
midiInstrument = "flute"
} \relative c'' {
\key g \major
\time 3/8
\tempo "Andantino"
\override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##f
\autoBeamOff
r1*3/8
r8 d4~
\omit TupletNumber \tuplet 3/2 8 {d32[ fis\staccato a\staccato b\staccato a\staccato fis]\staccato}
\undo \omit TupletNumber \tuplet 3/2 8 {d[ d d d d d]}
\tuplet 3/2 8 {d[\staccato e\staccato fis\staccato g\staccato a\staccato b]\staccato}
\tuplet 3/2 8 {a[\staccato fis\staccato d\staccato d\staccato d\staccato d]\staccato}
\tuplet 3/2 8 {d8.:32\staccato}
\tuplet 3/2 8 {d32\staccato[ e\staccato fis\staccato g\staccato a\staccato b]\staccato}
}
\new Staff = "cor anglais" \with {
instrumentName = "COR ANGLAIS"
midiInstrument = "english horn"
} \relative c'' {
\transposition f
\key d \major
\time 3/8
\tempo "Andantino"
\override TupletBracket.bracket-visibility = ##f
\autoBeamOff
\tuplet 3/2 8 {a16[ b cis] d[ e fis] g[ b, g']}
\omit TupletNumber
\tuplet 3/2 8 {fis[ a, fis'] e[ g, e'] d[ fis, d']}
\tuplet 3/2 8 {cis[ a cis] e[ g8] fis16[ d8]}
\tuplet 3/2 8 {cis16[ a cis] e[ g8] fis16[ d8]}
}
>>
\layout {
indent = 3\cm
}](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/4/a/4a01osna4vx9xjy8imj12l1uao1fsmf/4a01osna.png)
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- ↑ Some outstanding passages for the flute occur in Balfe's overture Le Puits d'Amour.
