On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:12 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Flute d'amore? Where have you seen that? I have never heard of such an instrument, I'd be really intersting to know more.
"Flute d'amour (It.: flauto d'amore), 18th-c. flute in A, a 3rd below the ordinary flute, nearly extinct now [1964], although it has since been made on occasion with the Boehm system." --Sybil Marcuse, _Musical Instruments: a Comprehensive Dictionary_
_New Grove_ says "[T]here seems to be no special repertory for this instrument... Music written at concert pitch could be played on the flute in A by reading it as though written in the French violin clef, ... a procedure recommended by Quantz."
According to Terry, _Bach's Orchestra_, there are a few cantatas where Bach takes the flute down to C or B, and which would require this instrument (regular flutes of the time could not play these notes). Interestingly, The _St. Matthew Passion_, Cantata 192, and _Vereinigte Zwietracht_ clearly require what we would now call alto flutes, in (there nontransposing) G.
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