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Alto flute, the Glossary

The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, pitched below the standard C flute and the uncommon flûte d'amour.^[1]

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Aerophone

An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).

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Alexander Goehr

Peter Alexander Goehr (born 10 August 1932) is an English composer and academic.

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Alexander Shchetynsky

Alexander Shchetynsky (Shchetinsky) (Олекса́ндр Степа́нович Щети́нський; Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Щети́нский; Aleksandr Stepanovich Shchetins'kiy) is a Ukrainian composer.

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Ali Ryerson

Ali Ryerson (born 21 October 1952 in New York City) is a flutist with a background in both classical and jazz, as well as being an instructor.

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Anne La Berge

Anne La Berge was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1955.

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Anton Webern

Anton Webern (3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist.

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Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà...

Éclairs sur l'Au-Delà... (Lightning Over the Beyond...) is the final completed work of the composer Olivier Messiaen.

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Bass flute

The bass flute is a member of the flute family pitched one octave below the concert flute. Alto flute and bass flute are Side-blown flutes.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Brian Landrus

Brian Landrus (born September 14, 1978) is a jazz saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and educator.

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Bruno Bartolozzi

Bruno Bartolozzi (8 June 1911 – 12 December 1980) was an Italian composer and pioneer in the development of extended techniques for wind instruments.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Cyrano de Bergerac (Alfano)

Cyrano de Bergerac is a four-act opera with music by Franco Alfano, and libretto by Henri Caïn, based on Edmond Rostand's 1897 drama Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Daphnis et Chloé

Daphnis et Chloé is a 1912 symphonie chorégraphique, or choreographic symphony, for orchestra and wordless chorus by Maurice Ravel.

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Des Canyons aux étoiles...

Des canyons aux étoiles... (From the canyons to the stars...) is a large twelve-movement orchestral work by the French composer Olivier Messiaen.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

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Edwin Roxburgh

Edwin Roxburgh (born 1937) is an English composer, conductor and oboist.

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Flûte d'amour

The flûte d'amour (flauto d'amore; Liebesflöte; all translating as "love flute"), sometimes called a Mezzo-Soprano flute (flûte ténor; flauto tenore; Tenorflöte), is an uncommon member of the Western concert flute family, pitched in A, A, or B and is intermediate in size between the modern C concert flute and the alto flute in G. Alto flute and flûte d'amour are Side-blown flutes.

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Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider-Esleben (7 April 194721 April 2020) was a German musician.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Franco Alfano

Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), Risurrezione (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926.

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Gary Schocker

Gary Schocker (born October 18, 1959) is an American flutist, composer, and pianist who has performed with the New York Philharmonic (at age 15, in a nationally televised Young People's Concert), the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the West German Sinfonia, and I Solisti Italiani.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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Harvey Sollberger

Harvey Sollberger (born May 11, 1938 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American composer, flutist, and conductor specializing in contemporary classical music.

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Howard Shore

Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945).

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John Palmer (composer)

John Palmer (1959) is a British composer, pianist, musicologist, and university professor.

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Jon Gibson (minimalist musician)

Jon Gibson (March 11, 1940October 11, 2020) was an American flutist, saxophonist, composer and visual artist, known as one of the founding members of the Philip Glass Ensemble.

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Kaija Saariaho

Kaija Anneli Saariaho (14 October 1952 – 2 June 2023) was a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (opera)

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op.

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Le Marteau sans maître

Le Marteau sans maître (The Hammer without a Master) is a chamber cantata by French composer Pierre Boulez.

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Ledger line

A ledger line or leger line is used in Western musical notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and spaces of the regular musical staff.

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Matthias Ziegler

Matthias Ziegler (born in Bern, Switzerland on 13 February 1955) is a Swiss flautist and professor of flute who specializes in contemporary music for various sizes of flute (including flute, alto flute, bass flute, and contrabass flute).

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Music in the Air

Music in the Air is a musical written by Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and book) and Jerome Kern (music).

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Music of The Lord of the Rings film series

The music of The Lord of the Rings film series was composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced by Howard Shore between 2000 and 2004 to support Peter Jackson's film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel of the same name.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Patrick Nunn

Patrick Nunn (born 21 July 1969 in Tunbridge Wells, England), is a British composer and educator.

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Perfect fourth

A fourth is a musical interval encompassing four staff positions in the music notation of Western culture, and a perfect fourth is the fourth spanning five semitones (half steps, or half tones).

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Philippe Hersant

Philippe Hersant (born 21 June 1948 in Rome) is a French composer.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. Alto flute and piccolo are Side-blown flutes.

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Robert Russell Bennett

Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.

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Saint François d'Assise

Saint François d'Assise: Scènes Franciscaines (English: Franciscan Scenes of Saint Francis of Assisi), or simply Saint François d'Assise, is an opera in three acts and eight scenes by French composer Olivier Messiaen, who was also its librettist; written from 1975 to 1979, with orchestration and copying from 1979 to 1983.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_flute

Also known as Altfloete, Altflöte, Flute in G, G flute.

, Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich), Tōru Takemitsu, The Planets, The Rite of Spring, Toward the Sea, Transposing instrument, Very Warm for May, Western concert flute, Western concert flute family, Woodwind instrument.

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Side-blown flutes

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