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Definition of Flutes
1. flute [v] - See also: flute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flutes
Literary usage of Flutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation by Charles Marie Widor (1906)
"Transposing flutes. 16—flutes are made in several keys. ... Among flutes tuned
above the normal pitch, the only one we now have left is the Flute in E?, ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"uete for 2 Violins, Basa, 2 flutes, Small Flute, 2 Bassoons, 2 Clarinets, 2
Hautboys, 2 Horns, 2 Trumpets, and Kettle-drums; 601, 4 Minuets for 2 Violins, ..."
3. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of by Leander Jan De Bekker (1908)
"187, Diverti- for 2 Violins, Viola, Bass, 2 flutes, 2 mentó for 2 flutes, ...
12 Minuets for 2 Violins, 2 flutes, 2 Marches, Symphonic Movements, ..."
4. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Alcides loquitur : — ‘I The Alexandrians are especially skillful with the flute ;
anti not only in tin-on-nc kinds called girls flutes an-id boy's flutes, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"He it was who lirst conceived, among other daring and beautiful innovations, the
idea of using the high harmonic sounds of the Violin, in unison with flutes ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"flutes thus improved took the name of " flûtes à registre." The register system
was, about 1752, applied by Quantz to the head joint* and, the embouchure ..."
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