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Ecole Elémentaire Lucie Aubrac 10300
Sainte-Savine France
peace through the arts...
We are going to present you a composer of classical music
Maurice Ravel
and a musical instrument:
the traverse flute.
Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 –
December 28, 1937) was a French
composer known especially for his
melodies, orchestral and instrumental
textures and effects.
Ravel is perhaps known best for
his orchestral music and
arrangement .
-Daphnis and Chloé
-Pictures at an exhibition
The Ravel’s most famous
orchestral composition is
One of our pupils is playing
traverse flute and we decided
to now more about it
The traverse flute would have
appeared in China, then in West
in the Middle Ages (XIIth
century). The first descriptions
of the instrument date however
only of the XVIth century. In the
second half of the XVIIth
century, Jean-Baptiste Lully
introduces the traverse flute
into the orchestra of opera and
since the XVIIIth century, the
instrument sees assigning an
important function of soloist.
LULLY
The first major
transformations
brought to the
traverse flute will be
due to the French
family Hotteterre,
during the first half of
the XVIIIth century.
Jacques Martin
Hotteterre cuts the
flute in 3 pieces .
For our pupils we used older and
simpler flutes
recorders
Children played the European hymn
From the 9th symphony of beethoven
The end
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