Piccolo Flute
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Repertoire examples for Piccolo Flute, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.
KENNAN AND GRANTHAM (2002, P. 103), THE TECHNIQUE OF ORCHESTRATION.
Suggested listening for Piccolo Flute. Playlist available here on Spotify.
“Tchaikovsky, Fourth Symphony, 3rd movt., meas. 194.
Pierné, “Entrance of the Little Fauns” from Cydalise.
Debussy, Iberia. Part I (“Par les rues et par les chemins”) many passages.
Ravel, Mother Goose Suite: II. “Petit Poucet,” figure 7; III. “Laideronette, Impératrice des Pagodes,” figure 1: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, figure 183.
Kodaly, HaryJanos Suite, Part II (“Viennese Musical Clock”) and Part IV (“The Battle and Defeat of Napoleon”).
Shostakovich, Seventh Symphony, 1st movt., figure 14; Ninth Symphony, first movt., 3 bars after figure 6.
Copland, Third Symphony, 3rd movt., 3 bars after figure 69; figure 71; 2 bars after fig ure 78; 3 bars after figure 83, etc.
Schuller, Seven Studies on Themes ofPaul Klee, 4th movt. ”
