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, Golden Legend, Sc. i. latter answering each other in alternate phrases. In Coleridge Taylor's Hiawatha we find some most appropriate themes given to the flute. The work opens with an announcement of one of the principal motifs by a solo , Hiawatha. flute, and the chief tenor solo has a delicate flute obligato. Some of the flute passages lie very high and are of great difficulty. A few can only be played with sufficient rapidity by the use of harmonicsa thing undreamt of by the older orchestral composers. Most of these, however, are doubled on the piccolo. This composer also gives a great number of shakes to the flute, including one of two and a half bars' duration on the top B′′′♮.