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piccolo

PEE-koe-loe

[Italian, small or little]

1. A small flute that sounds an octave above the regular flute and an octave above its written music. The piccolo today is commonly pitched in "C" but the D flat  piccolo was common through the 1950's. The written range of the  C piccolo is D4 to C7.
 
2. A name for an instrument of particularly high range, such as the piccolo trumpet.
 
3. An Italian term for  little or small.
 
See also [Eng.] little; [Eng.] small; [Fr.] peu; [Fr.] petit; [Ger.] wenig; [Ger.] klein; [It.] poco; [It.] scarso.
 

Example


Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Piccolo in C major, I




See Also

[Abbreviation] Pic.
[Abbreviation] Picc.
[French] petite flûte (f)
[French] flûte piccolo (f)
[German] kleine Flöte (f)
[German] Pikkoloflöte (f)
[German] Pickelflöte (f)
[German] Pikkolo (n)
[German] Oktavflöte (f)
[Italian] ottavino (m)
[Italian] flauto piccolo (m)
[Italian] flautín (m)

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