See also:

• PICCOLO (Fr. petite filte octave; Ger. Pickelflote; Ital. flauto piccolo or ottavino)

PICCOLO (Fr. petite filte See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

octave; Ger. Pickelflote; Ital. flauto piccolo or ottavino)  , a small See also:

• FLUTE

flute of less than See also:

• HALF

half the dimensions of the large See also:

• CONCERT (through the French from Lat. con-, with, and certare, to strive)

concert flute and pitched an See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

octave higher . The principles of construction and the acoustic properties are the same for the See also:

• PICCOLO (Fr. petite filte octave; Ger. Pickelflote; Ital. flauto piccolo or ottavino)

piccolo as for the flute, with the exception that the piccolo does not contain the additional tail-piece with the extra See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low keys, which give the flute its extended See also:

• COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass . As the See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch of the piccolo is so high, the highest of all orchestral See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments with the exception of a few harmonics on the See also:

• VIOLIN

violin, the See also:

• MUSIC

music for it is written an octave See also:

• LOWER

lower than the real sounds in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to avoid the See also:

• LEDGER (from the English dialect forms liggen or leggen, to lie or lay; in sense adapted from the Dutch substantive logger)

ledger lines . The piccolo has been used with See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good effect in imitating the whistling of the See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind in storms, as in See also:

• BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827)

Beethoven's See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

Pastoral See also:

• SYMPHONY

Symphony, See also:

• WAGNER, ADOLF (1835- )
• WAGNER, RUDOLPH (1805-1864)
• WAGNER, WILHELM RICHARD (1813-1883)

Wagner's Flying Dutchman, and in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with the violins in tremolo to depict the See also:

• RUST (O.E. rust, a word which appears in -many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. roest, Ger. rost); in origin it is allied with " ruddy " and " red," the reddish-brown powdery substance which forms on the surface of iron or steel exposed to atmospheric corrosio

rust-See also:

• LING, PER HENRIK (1776-1839)

ling of the leaves in the See also:

• BREEZE

breeze, as in the " Waldweben " in Siegfried . See also:

• VERDI, GIUSEPPE FORTUNINO FRANCESCO (1813-1901)

Verdi employed it to See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage in Falstaff as a comic See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent in humorous situations . The piccolo is generally in D, sometimes in E'v or F . (K .