Flagolet |

Flagolet (French flageolet, shortened from Old French flageol – flute; English flageolet, Italian flagioletto, German Flageolett).

1) Brass music. tool. A genus of block-flate of small size. The forerunner of the piccolo. The device is close to the flute. Designed by the French master V. Juvigny in Paris c. 1581. It had a beak-shaped head and a whistle device, 4 holes on the front and 2 on the back of the tube with a cylindrical. channel. Build in F or in G, less often in As, range d1 – c3 (eis1 – d3) in notation; in valid sounding – higher by undecima, duodecima or terdecima. The sound is quiet, gentle, ringing. Applied Ch. arr. to perform dance. music in amateur music making; often decorated with inlays. In the 17th century was especially common in England. Under the title “flauto piccolo”, “flauto”, “piffero” it was used by J. S. Bach (cantatas No. 96, c. 1740, and No. 103, c. 1735), G. F. Handel (opera “Rinaldo”, 1711, the oratorio Acis and Galatea, 1708), K. V. Gluck (the opera An Unforeseen Meeting, or the Pilgrims from Mecca, 1764) and W. A. ​​Mozart (the singspiel The Abduction from the Seraglio, 1782). In con. 18th century an improved F. appeared with 6 holes on the front side of the tube and one on the back, also with valves – up to 6, usually with two (one for es1, the other for gis3); at the turn of 18 – early. 19th centuries in symph. and opera orchestras it was used by many. composers. In London in 1800-20, craftsmen W. Bainbridge and Wood made and so-called. double (sometimes triple) f. with a common beak-shaped head of ivory or pear wood. There were so-called. avian P. – French an instrument for teaching songbirds.

2) The flute register of the organ (2′ and 1′) and the harmonium is a bright, piercing, treble voice.

References: Levin S., Wind instruments in the history of musical culture, M., 1973, p. 24, 64, 78, 130; Mersenne M., Harmonie universelle, P., 1636, id. (facsimile ed.), introd. par Fr. Lesure, t. 1-3, P., 1963; Gevaert P., Traité générale d’instrumentation, Gand, 1863 and additional – Nouveau traité d’instrumentation, P.-Brux., 1866 (Russian translation – New instrumentation course, M., 1901, 1885, pp. 1892-1913).

A. A. Rozenberg