. Orchestration . THE FLUTE 193 This is an effective instance of the Flutes used with a pp accom-paniment in their quietest register. The student should look at therepetition of this tune that immediately follows in the Full Clarinets now play the Flute parts, and the latter instrumentsdouble them in the octave above. Besides the species of tonguing already mentioned, Strauss hasintroduced a method called Flatterzunge, or Flutter-tonguing. Thisis applicable to the Flute, and, a good deal less conveniently, to theOboe and Clarinet. The player, while executing a moderately quickchromat
. Orchestration . THE FLUTE 193 This is an effective instance of the Flutes used with a pp accom-paniment in their quietest register. The student should look at therepetition of this tune that immediately follows in the Full Clarinets now play the Flute parts, and the latter instrumentsdouble them in the octave above. Besides the species of tonguing already mentioned, Strauss hasintroduced a method called Flatterzunge, or Flutter-tonguing. Thisis applicable to the Flute, and, a good deal less conveniently, to theOboe and Clarinet. The player, while executing a moderately quickchromatic scale, rolls his tongue thus d-r-r-r without touching his employs this method of delivery throughout the WindmillVariation in Don Quixote. The bars are all more or less of onepattern, and this is a sample:. The Flute has no great powers of sostenuto or ofIn its lowest notes especially any idea of an extended legato has to beput The length and bore of the pipe are so great that the playerhas to breathe after every few notes. On the other hand, its nimble-ness and general ability to play anything have passed into a pro-verb. This is perhaps crystallized in the answer of the American, who,when asked if he could read a Chinese laundrymans shop sign, said,41 No, but I think I could play it if I had my flute. Staccatos, repeated notes, turns, shakes, skips, arpeggios, scalesdiatonic and scales chromatic, and all sorts of agile figures founded onsuch types, are childs play to a good Flautist. Quotations might begiven here by the dozen. We shall, however, content ourselves by areference to one single passage. It occurs in the last Act of Tristanund Isolde, where Tristan, seeing Isoldes ship approaching, exclaims,*• Es naht! Es naht mit muthiger Hast! Sie weht, sie weht, dieFlagge am Ma
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