A platinum one is called for by (*) Edgar Varèse's Density 21.5.
Jacques Ibert's difficult D-major concerto for this instrument was written for Marcel Moyse. The motif [read slowly] F-E-F-sharp appears in a solo piece for this instrument, which was played by a 20th-century French performer who owned one made of solid gold. A platinum one is called for by (*) Edgar Varèse's Density 21.5. Jean-Pierre Rampal played this instrument. Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun opens with a tritonespanning solo by - for 10 points - what relative of the piccolo?
Jacques Ibert's difficult D-major concerto for this instrument was written for Marcel Moyse.
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