flauton.
/ˈflaʊtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈflaʊdoʊ/ Music.
1. A flute; (originally and chiefly) an end-blown flute, a recorder; (later occasionally) a transverse flute. Also: the part in a musical composition played on such an instrument. Now chiefly historical, or in contexts relating to the performance of early music.For information on the development of these instruments, see the note at flute n.1 1a.
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1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. 31 Flauto is a Flute.
1754 C. Lyster Summer Trifles (ed. 2) 15 The essence of catgut, the screech of a choir; The flautos and oboes a-blowing the fire.
1999 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 52 387 If a G recorder is used on Flauto I and an F recorder on Flauto II in Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto, they are not well matched.
2001 B. Haynes Eloquent Oboe iii. 166 In the final chorus..the two oboe da caccia players play Flauto (recorder).
2. In the names of various organ stops having a tone resembling that of a flute or recorder.Recorded earliest in flauto traverso n. 1.
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1855 Manch. Courier 20 Oct. 10/5 Choir Organ... Voix celestes..Gemshorn..Flauto traverso.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 171/1 Flauto amabile, flute d'amour, an organ stop consisting of sweet-toned closed, or sometimes open, pipes. It is generally of 4 ft. pitch.
1997 B. Owen Registration of Baroque Organ Music ii. 57 Joyful stops, in Diruta's canon, are generally those of octave pitch or higher, whereas the Principale with Tremolo, or the Flauto played an octavo down, are more sombre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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