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Avian Flute
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The songbird — from forests and woodlands around the world, the tweeting of birds is an instantly recognizable sound for anyone familiar with the outdoors. The high pitch of their calls puts them in a similar range with flutes, sometimes piccolos. As such, it's only natural that when composers wish to represent birds in music, they most often turn to the flute, giving it a generally light, jaunty tune that flitters about in a way reminiscent of the beating of small wings and tweeting. The one common orchestral birdcall least associated with flutes, though often heard with flute/piccolo birdcalls in counterpoint or in succession, is the cuckoo's descending third or fourth, which is usually scored for the clarinet. Examples |
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Parodied in Road to Zanzibar, where, after some dialogue discussing the use of an Invisible Orchestra in movies, a bird call is Mickey Moused to the sound of a flute. Bing Crosby asks it to take it down a semitone, and the bird, or rather invisible flutist, obliges. | |
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Papageno's flute motif in The Magic Flute. | |
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The Magic Crane: The arrival of the titular crane is heralded by the sound of flute music, being played by its rider and handler, Wan-fai. | |
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Storm Hawks: Arygyn the Skeelur can shapeshift into a bird, and his leitmotif is a whimsical, flutey tune. | |
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| Avian Flute / int_745c0556 | type |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Taken quite literally during the actual short, where there's a part where the dragon is leading a trio of birds in song with a flute. | |
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Robin Robin: Each main character is associated with a different instrument. Robin,a robin, is associated with a cheerful tune on two flutes. | |
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Little Einsteins, being a music-focused show, naturally features many birds who sing in flutesong. | |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: At one point, we start following a small bird as it flies around the Hogwarts grounds, accompanied by a very fast flute piece (starting at 1:50) that highlights its flight until it meets an unfortunate end at the Whomping Willow. | |
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The slow movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral") ends with a passage that depicts several birds calling to each other. A flute is used to mimic the nightingale's song, while oboes and clarinets respectively imitate a quail and a cuckoo. | |
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The Land Before Time: Shortly after Littlefoot is left on his own, there's a small interlude where a flock of small pterosaurs begin fighting over a small fruit. While not actually birds, they flutter about and chirp like modern birds, and their actions are scored by light-hearted flutes. | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: The song "Greenfinch and Linnet Bird begins with fluttering flutes as Johanna, watching birds in cages, likens herself to one of them, singing about her own desire for freedom. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Dragon Roost Island is home to the Rito. The island's theme music has a woodwind melody over a jaunty, upbeat background to create a light, airy feel. | |
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The eponymous tone poem in Liz and the Blue Bird uses a flute solo to represent the blue bird, in a duet with an oboe solo that represents Liz. | |
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Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev: The bird is represented by the flute. While this may not be the Trope Maker, it is almost certainly the Trope Codifier. | |
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An American Tail: After the confrontation with Warren T. Cat and his gang and a subsequent fire, Fievel finds himself at an orphanage where he begins to lose hope that he'll ever find his family. As the scene shifts from a dark, rainy night to morning, a light piccolo begins playing as a flock of small birds flies in and begins splashing around in the puddles left from the night before. | |
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In Richard Wagner's Siegfried, the "Forest Murmurs" sequence in the second act, which frames Siegfried's battle with the dragon Fafner, has the hero listening intently to the song of a bird represented by flute, oboe and clarinet riffs. The bird's most important Leitmotif appears mostly on the latter two instruments, though Siegfried also attempts to play it himself (badly) on his own improvised reed instrument, and the motif is sung by a human voice when Siegfried realizes he can understand its words after tasting the dragon's blood. | |
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In Der Rosenkavalier, as the first act opens, flutes and other high woodwinds play trills to represent birds singing in the garden. | |
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In The Firebird, most of the titular bird's music involves fast flute runs. | |
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