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 (1735), whilst in the "Menuet" in the Water Music (1715) several "flauti piccoli" play in unison with the Rinaldo. Cadenza for Piccolo. strings, but it is doubtful whether the names of these instruments were specified by the composer. The compass used in the passage in Alcina is from F′ to G′′ only, but those in Rinaldo and Riccardo extend to the D′′′ above this, and that in the Water Music to the high E′′′, Probably all these passages were written for a small flute-à-bec, and not for a transverse piccolo, which would therefore appear never to have been used by Handel; but it is to be noticed that in some cases they