This instrument plays the opening solo over tremolo strings in the "Nocturne" from Maurice Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 1, and it also plays the main solo in the "Pantomime" from Act III of the original ballet. In Gabriel Faure's Pavane, this instrument plays the opening theme over pizzicato strings. This instrument opens another French piece with a chromatic descent from (*) C-sharp to G-natural which then rises back up. Claude Debussy wrote the solo piece Syrinx for this instrument, which introduces the repeating theme of Ravel's Bolero and plays the beginning of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. 
This instrument plays the opening solo over tremolo strings in the "Nocturne" from Maurice Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 1, and it also plays the main solo in the "Pantomime" from Act III of the original ballet. In Gabriel Faure's Pavane, this instrument plays the opening theme over pizzicato strings. This instrument opens another French piece with a chromatic descent from (*) C-sharp to G-natural which then rises back up. Claude Debussy wrote the solo piece Syrinx for this instrument, which introduces the repeating theme of Ravel's Bolero and plays the beginning of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. For 10 points, name this woodwind instrument whose smaller sibling is the piccolo.