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Castellani: 'Two Late-Renaissance Transverse Flutes', GSJ, xxv (1972), 73 Baines: Woodwind Instruments and their HistoryВ (London, 1957) Girard: Histoire et richesses de al fluteВ (Paris, 1953) de Lorenzo: My Complete Story of the FluteВ (New York, 1951) Sachs: The History of Musical InstrumentsВ (New York, 1940) Miller: Catalogue of Books and Literary Material relating to the Flute and Other Musical InstrumentsВ (Cleveland, 1935) Fitzgibbon: The Story of the FluteВ (London, 1914) Welch: Six Lectures on the Recorder and Other FlutesВ (London, 1911) Southgate: 'The Evolution of the Flute', PMA, xxxiv (1907), 155 Prill: Fuhrer durch die Floten-LiteraturВ (Leipzig, 1899) Euting: Zur Geschichte der Blasinstrumente im 16.-17. Thoinan: Les Hotteterre et les Chedeville: celebres joueurs et facteurs de flutes, hautbois, bassons, et musettes des XVII et XVIII sieclesВ (Paris, 1894) Rockstro: A Treatise on the Construction, the History and the Practice of the FluteВ (London, 1890) Welch: History of the Boehm FluteВ (London, 1882)

Quantz: Leben und Werke des Flotisten Johann Joachim QuantzВ (Berlin, 1877) Musica Antiqua's transverse flutes include a soprano, two altos, two tenors, and a bass, all by Koerber. Because the tone of the upper register was not refined and cross-fingerings were necessary for chromatic tones, the flute started to be used less towards the end of the 17th century, not to rebound until it was later adapted with improvements. They were were commonly seen in three or four sizes and fingered like recorders except that they were pitched one note higher, not having the bottom little-finger hole. Transverse flutes in the Renaissance had six holes producing a range of two octaves or more.

#Flauti traverso plus

In 1554, after hearing chamber music in Metz, Francois de Scepeaux, Sieur de Vielleville and marechalВ of France couldn't understand why they were called the German flutes, car les francais s'en aydent mieulx et plus musicalement que toute aultre nation et jamais en Allemagne n'en fust joue a quatre parties, comme il se faict ordinairement en FranceВ (because the French play them better and more musically than any other nation and they are never played in four parts in Germany, as they normally are in France). But later, by the beginning of the 16th century, they had established themselves throughout western Europe, showing up in Henry VIII's inventory. He mentioned, falauti alemani che si sonano a mezo el flauto, et non in testa, come si fanno li nostriВ (German flutes that are blown on the side of the instrument and not on the top as ours are). Transverse flutes were a novelty in Italy at the time, however, as is pointed out by Sachs in his Real-Lexikon. French poets and Machaut were spoke of them in the 14th century. The court of King Alfonso X of Spain used them. During the 14th century the transverse flute began to appear in non-Germanic Europe. Etruscan reliefs (2nd and 3rd centuries B.C.) and a Roman coin (169 B.C.) prove other early cultures had this instrument, although the Greeks evidently did not.ДЄfter the fall of Rome, this type of flute disappears from European art until the 10th and 11th centuries when it seems to have been introduced to Germany from Byzantium.

Also called flute traversiere, flute allemande, flute d'Allemagne, traversiere, Flote, Querflote, Flauto, flauto traverso,В or traversa, it is first seen in Chinese art in the 9th century BC. The cross flute, although not as popular at first as the recorder, has a long history in many cultures. Click on image for flute sound (110kb wav)