Philip Glass composed Piece in the Shape of a Square for two of these instruments.
Philip Glass composed Piece in the Shape of a Square for two of these instruments. The headjoint is one part of this instrument, which contains the gizmo key. This instrument plays sixteenth notes at the beginning of Smetana's The Moldau, and in Ravel's Bolero, this instrument is the first to play the melody. Frederick the Great played this instrument, and Theobald Boehm devised its fingering system. Debussy's piece Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun begins with this instrument chromatically descending. The bird in Peter and the Wolf is depicted by this reedless woodwind. For 10 points, name this instrument pitched an octave lower than a piccolo.
Philip Glass composed Piece in the Shape of a Square for two of these instruments.
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