The orchestra and its instruments . gue. The namedescribes it. Last, but not least, we must recall Gluck. Whatcould be more beautiful than his use of the flute inArmide, unless it is to be found in the music of Orjeo?All through that beautiful opera the plaintive, tendervoice of the flute is conspicuous. Not only does itplay melodies for the enchanting ballets and minuets,but its wailing notes tell us of the grief of Orpheusfor his adored Eurydice; and when we arrive in theElysian Fields with Orpheus its pure and etherealvoice, heard in a solo of ravishing beauty, lifts us outof the everyday w
The orchestra and its instruments . gue. The namedescribes it. Last, but not least, we must recall Gluck. Whatcould be more beautiful than his use of the flute inArmide, unless it is to be found in the music of Orjeo?All through that beautiful opera the plaintive, tendervoice of the flute is conspicuous. Not only does itplay melodies for the enchanting ballets and minuets,but its wailing notes tell us of the grief of Orpheusfor his adored Eurydice; and when we arrive in theElysian Fields with Orpheus its pure and etherealvoice, heard in a solo of ravishing beauty, lifts us outof the everyday world we live in and transports us intoa realm of blissful peace and enchanting beauty. In early days the flute was played by holding itstraight in front and not horizontally as shown inthe picture facing page 74. The German, Quanz,did much to bring the horizontal flute into of his most enthusiastic pupils was Frederickthe Great, King of Prussia, who is shown in the pic-ture facing this page playing a flute concerto with. THE WOODWIND FAMILY 79 his orchestra at Sans Souci, taken from an engravingby Chodowieki. The Kings favorite greyhounds arethe only listeners. Franz Benda is the first violinand Christian Friedrich Fasch, who succeeded PhilippEmanuel Bach (son of J. S. Bach), is playing the harp-sichord. Modern compositions usually call for two flutes anda piccolo. THE PICCOLO The piccolo is the little flute. Properly, it shouldbe spoken of as the piccolo flute, for just as we haveseen in the case of the violoncello the word cellomeans little or small, so the word piccolo is an ad-jective and not a noun. However, people speak ofit simply as the piccolo. The piccolo plays the upperoctave of the flute. It is less than half the lengthof the flute and it lacks the foot-joint. Its com-pass is over two octaves. Almost every piccolo pla;y ercan play high B and even C. The music for thepiccolo is always written in the Treble Clef, an octavebelow the real pitch, that is to s
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