fluted

Examples of fluted in the following topics:

• Introduction

  • Have you ever wondered why an oboe and a flute sound so different, even when they're playing the same note?

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • Doric columns almost always featuring fluting down the length of the column, numbering up to 20.
  • The flutes meet at sharp edges called arrises.
  • Ionic Order columns are fluted with narrow, shallow flutes that do not meet at a sharp edge, but have a flat band between them.
  • The usual number of flutes is 24, but there can be as many as 44.
  • During the Hellenistic period, Corinthian columns were sometimes built without fluting.

• Timbre

  • In other words, if a flute plays a note, and then an oboe plays the same note, for the same length of time, at the same loudness, you can still easily distinguish between the two sounds, because a flute sounds different from an oboe.
  • A listener can hear not only the difference between an oboe and a flute, but also the difference between two different oboes.

• A Brief History of Basso Continuo

  • The upper part is played by the flute, the lower part is the basso continuo line, played by a keyboardist who uses the numbers below the staff (figures) to guide the chords played above this bass line.

• Physics, Harmonics and Color

  • Then a flute plays the same note at the same dynamic level as the oboe.
  • It is still easy to tell the two notes apart, because an oboe sounds different from a flute.
  • Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ.

• Early Lifestyles

  • These groups were efficient hunters and carried a variety of tools, which included highly efficient fluted style spear points, as well as microblades used for butchering and hide processing.
  • A hallmark of the toolkit associated with the Clovis culture is the distinctively shaped, fluted stone spear point, known as the Clovis point.
  • Each of these is commonly thought to derive directly from Clovis and in some cases, the only difference was the in their spears and the length of the fluting on their projectile points.

• Suggested Listening

  • Any orchestral woodwind or brass instrument (flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, etc.) performing alone.

• Some Useful Terms

  • For example, a choral piece might be chordal for a few verses and then, to keep the music interesting and fresh, add an independent part for a flute or for the highest sopranos on the third verse.

• Prussia Under Frederick the Great

  • The Flute Concert of Sanssouci by Adolph Menzel, 1852, depicts Frederick playing the flute in his music room at Sanssouci, his favorite residence in Potsdam. 
  • Additionally to reforming efforts, Frederick was a patron of music as well as a gifted musician who played the transverse flute.
  • He composed more than 100 sonatas for the flute as well as four symphonies.

• Quality of Sound

  • Why does the same note being played on a piano sound different from that note played on a flute, or a guitar?