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Maya civilization. The music of the ancient Mayan courts is described throughout native and Spanish 16th-century texts and is depicted in the art of the Classic Period (200–900 AD). The Maya played instruments such as trumpets, flutes, whistles, and drums, and used music to accompany funerals, celebrations, and other rituals.
Western concert flute. A fife ( / faɪf / FYFE) is a small, high-pitched, transverse aerophone, that is similar to the piccolo. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in fife and drum corps, military units, and marching bands. Someone who plays the fife is called a fifer. The word fife comes from the German Pfeife, meaning ...
Ludwig van Beethoven: . Serenade for flute, violin and viola in D major, Op. 25; Trio for piano, flute, and bassoon in G major, WoO 37; Pierre Boulez: …explosante-fixe…, various configurations with flute and other instruments (1971–72, 1973–74, 1985, 1991–93)
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. [ 1]
[3] [6] [7] The name of the album comes from "Rock Flute" as the original idea was to make an album of mostly instrumental flute music. [6] [3] But eventually Ian Anderson stated that he was drawn to the phrase Ragnarök with "rök" meaning destiny, course, or direction. Ian Anderson would then change "Flute" to "Flöte" to "keep with the ...
James Galway. Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish [ 1][ 2] virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute". [ 3] After several years working as an orchestral musician, he established an international career as a solo flute player.
Passion (re-released as Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ) is an album released in 1989 by the English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel. It was the first Peter Gabriel album to be released on Real World Records, Gabriel's second soundtrack, and his eighth album overall. Passion was originally composed as the soundtrack album for ...
Kalesnikava, a musician with deep ties to Germany thanks to teaching flute for many years at a music conservatoire in Stuttgart, was part of an alliance, led by Sviatlana Tikhanouskaya, that most ...