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PICCOLO (Fr. petite filte octave; Ger. Pickelflote; Ital. flauto piccolo or ottavino)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 580 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PICCOLO (Fr. petite filte octave; Ger. Pickelflote; Ital. flauto piccolo or ottavino) , a small
flute
  of less than half the dimensions of the large concert
flute
  and pitched an
octave
  higher. The principles of construction and the acoustic properties are the same for the
piccolo
  as for the flute, with the exception that the
piccolo
  does not contain the additional tail-piece with the extra low keys, which give the flute its extended
compass
 . As the pitch of the piccolo is so high, the highest of all orchestral
instruments
  with the exception of a few harmonics on the
violin
 , the music for it is written an octave
lower
  than the real sounds in order to avoid the ledger lines. The piccolo has been used with good effect in imitating the whistling of the wind in storms, as in Beethoven's
Pastoral
  Symphony,
Wagner
 's Flying Dutchman, and in conjunction with the violins in tremolo to depict the rust-ling of the leaves in the breeze, as in the " Waldweben " in Siegfried. Verdi employed it to advantage in Falstaff as a comic agent in humorous situations. The piccolo is generally in D, sometimes in E'v or F. (K. S.)


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