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 depict the hero leaping over the wall (by a very rapid diatonic run from G′ to G′′). In "The Ride" the piccolo is used most effectively. In this work we also find a very elaborate cadenza, written, strange to say, for the second flute accompanying the voice.

Grieg in his Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1 ("Morning"), has a quiet passage for solo flute, and later on in the same piece he writes gracefully for two flutes in thirds. In Olav Trygvason he uses two piccolos in thirds along with a flute in some effective chromatic runs, whilst in accompaniment , Peer Gynt. to his song Henrik Vergeland he assigns to the piccolo only four notes: the piccolo player here certainly earns his fee easily! In his Second Suite ("Danse Arabe") Grieg used two piccolos with drum and triangle.

The modern school of French composers make great use of the flute, frequently writing for it passages of