Word: fluting
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...17th Century. It has a pear-shaped body built of pine or cedar staves pieced together like the crescent divisions of a melon. Its neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate...
...paintings by Derain include "Pheasants and Table," 1928; "The Flute Player," 1915; "Back of a Woman's Head," 1928; and "Still Life," 1910 as well as a number of drawings and water colors...
...against each other so that they were often seeking England's aid. He launched a new church and designed a wagon to grind corn while it rolled along. He built up the navy, encouraged business, absorbed Wales, pacified (for a few moments) Ireland, weakened hostile Scotland, played the flute, started a book, jousted in the tiltyard, began the great English age that was to be called Elizabethan...
...Ensemble owes its organization to Jacob Moskovitz '30, who is at present its manager. A very capable oboe player, he will render the part for that instrument in the "Fugal Concert" for Flute and Oboe, by Gustay Holst, the English composer who lectured at Harvard last Friday. The orchestra consists of 16 men in addition to Moskovitz, most of whom are members of the Pierian Sodality orchestra...
...program follows: Divertimento No. 11 in D. Major Mozart Overture or Concerto No. 5 in D Major St. Martini Fugal Concerto for Flute and Oboe with accompaniment for String Orchestra Holst Music for the cinematographic film "Napoleon" Danse des Enfants Honegger Gavotte from the Pantomime "Les Petits Riens" Mozart