The alto flute is a type of Western concert flute, a musical instrument in the woodwind family. It is the next extension downward of the C flute after the flûte d'amour. It is characterized by its distinct, mellow tone in the lower portion of its range. It is a transposing instrument in G and, like the piccolo and bass flute, uses the same fingerings as the C flute.
The tube of the alto flute is considerably thicker and longer than a C flute and requires more breath from the player. This gives it a greater dynamic presence in the bottom octave and a half of its range.
It was the favourite flute variety of Theobald Boehm, who perfected its design, and is pitched in the key of G (sounding a 4th lower than written).[unreliable source?] Its range is from G3 (the G below middle C) to G6 (4 ledger lines above the treble clef staff) plus an altissimo register stretching to D♭8. The headjoint may be straight or curved.
In the classical literature, the alto flute is particularly associated with the scores of Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel, both of whom used the instrument's distinctive tone color in a variety of scores. It is featured in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Franco Alfano's opera Cyrano de Bergerac, and Sergei Prokofiev's Scythian Suite. Shostakovich used it in his operas The Gamblers (incomplete), Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (also known as Katerina Ismailova), as well as in his Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad). It also figures prominently in several movements of Gustav Holst's The Planets. It also appears in Howard Shore's music for The Lord of the Rings among many other contemporary film scores.
Claude-Achille Debussy (French pronunciation: [klod aʃil dəbysi]) (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. In France, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1903. A crucial figure in the transition to the modern era in Western music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
His music is noted for its sensory component and for not often forming around one key or pitch. Often Debussy's work reflected the activities or turbulence in his own life. In French literary circles, the style of this period was known as symbolism, a movement that directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.
Mimi Stillman is a prominent concert flutist. A Yamaha Performing Artist, she has won international acclaim as soloist with orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Hilton Head Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez (Mexico City), Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Texas Brazos Valley Symphony, Orchestra 2001, Ocean City Pops, Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, and Curtis Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as recitalist and chamber musician at venues including The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Bard College, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Bay Chamber Concerts (ME), Verbier Festival (Switzerland), and Festival delle Nazioni (Italy).
At 12, Stillman was the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner and received her Bachelor of Music degree in 1999. That same year she became the youngest wind player ever to win the prestigious Young Concert Artists. She has been awarded fellowships from the Earhart and Bradley Foundations, and was a member of Astral Artists. In March 2012, she was honored with the Women in the Arts award from Women for Greater Philadelphia.
Karriem Riggins (born August 25, 1975) is a jazz drummer, hip hop producer, dj, and sometime rapper. He is a former member of the Ray Brown Trio and Mulgrew Miller trio and currently appears in the Diana Krall quartet.
Riggins was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father, Emmanuel Riggins, is also a musician, and Karriem would often play drums with him as a child. Riggins began producing hip hop in middle school and continued through high school. He studied music at Southfield High School as well, and joined Betty Carter's band Jazz Ahead soon after, at 17. When he was 19 (in 1994), Riggins moved to New York City, and joined the Ray Brown Trio in 1998. Riggins has also recorded and performed with Donald Byrd, Hank Jones, Mulgrew Miller, Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Cedar Walton, Roy Hargrove, and Bobby Hutcherson.
Away from jazz, Riggins has done production work for hip hop artists including Slum Village, Erykah Badu, Common, J Dilla, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Phat Kat, Consequence, and Dwele. He has collaborated with the hip hop multi-instrumentalist Madlib, performing on his 2007 album Yesterdays Universe and in collaborations entitled Supreme Team and The Jahari Massamba Unit. and also produced a portion of the soundtrack for the 2007 film Smokin' Aces.
Intro:
Enter gentlemen, take your seats
You have been brought here for a task
Only universal soldiers are brought for (yeah)
Let's begin
Hook:
Thee elite fleet stands tall and proud
See if you can pick the livest one out the crowd
Mc's you won't be around next year
M.s. comin' from the rear
M.s.:
We see your kind many times (many times)
Yappin' off your guns lettin' your lips flap
M.s. will push your wig back givin' stain from your shit crack
For who card shit I turn styles like the door knob
Bring ya more but it don't matter because me and squad bogard
For so long we hear the dumb shit that some do
These bum crews runnin' around ravin' with they one twos
So act like you want it with that babble you call rap dukes
I brings it to your grill while originoo gunn clap you
And it's no doubt I keep your whole crew under pressure
Heltah skeltah stalkin' smooth ayo my sides by the stretcher
Ready to get ya
So open up wide and wreckognize
And see who stands before your eyes in the 9-5
Coping with my high feeling the lye as it kick
A big of my brain thinkin' of this chickenhead I stuck my dick in
Top dawg:
They call me top dawg, top dawg of the year
Flowin' with my full grown dreads and army gear
When I come through with my bucktown crew
You better be on point because we might be looking for you
All y'all punany snake niggas remind me
Why we roll strickly bootcamp in the 90's
Come try we if you wanna, cause we gwan flex
Break niggas necks
Then hop on the iron horse get up with my elite fleet
So we can smoke x amount of ganja weed
It's alright if you wanna get high
But when you enter this session make sure you got lye
Cause sense we smoke mad sensi
Original dreads fortified blunt heads
Nuff said nuff punk gwon dead
Fuck all that bullshit, it's time to get red
Hook
Lil' rock (of the representitives):
Representitives coming up form the fuckin' rear
You're missing in action no time for relaxin'
We packin' mental thoughts that'll blow this nations back in
No need escape this zone unknown
Cause we travel to explore when the goals then bring the trophy home
Supreme (of the representitives):
Just like in a movie we breakin' through these niggas terrine
Supreme brings pain to your frame you can't hang
(you can't maintain) in the mist where guns click
13 deep thee elite we don't miss
Lil' rock:
Cause we be the squad called the representitives
Lil' rock and supreme aka gen grim and mr. perfect
Lord don't want to be known to hurt shit
Just wanna enterprise and stack papes for what it's worth kid
Supreme:
And thats all catch a black from black pull
Niggas that slack off I'm breakin' they glass jaw
So ask for, forgiveness to end this
The representitives mean buisness
Hurricane starange:
Yo I'm hype pass me the motherfuckin' mic
Rock ya like robbin', I clock ya like spike
Lee, s-t-r-a-n-g-l-e cooler then ?
That's what bitches tell me, strickly rugged
Run and tell ya momma cause she loves it
Hold it down like my niggas when they pissing ou in public
But you know and spolice spot you they lock you
But my nigga hocktu got you ready to knock you
Senseless cause against this you defencless
Don't even speak nigga you weak, strengthless
So all them niggas keeping they eye on the cash flow
Ash hole m16 steam through my afro
It's all about the storm fuck what you're under
Gun clapper number one a.k.a. starange wondah
Hook
Yo it's the nigga bad vybes creepin' up from the rear
Bad vybes:
Now you know bad want this done so I switch
To some next shit in 9-6 like fuck a bitch
But I quickly squeeze up on your shorites ass and titties
And turn to my committee and score here shit a 50
Percent fake a move your face meet cement
I know a lot of guys want to test the vybes
But most of y'all get fried like eggs on the side
(lone desperado) never could refuse a bottle
Of pain my stomach turn to words of ellen
Chumps fakin' jacks while I'm dishin' out the smacks g
You riff tracks bout how you feel with ruegs in your back
Louieville:
Playin' clean sweep for thee elite fleet we call him shocker
Second source out the storm shock like blanca
Games you hit I split them shit's get broken like bridges
With bitches cause all they see is riches
Hit's ya softly, something unlawfully
Smash the mask and cream and can the dog food I warned you
One strike that ass is dead
It's just no fair you know the rules nigga I don't care
3 you fall can't take no more
All that bullshit hot pops out that front door
Enough of it punk bitches I know you dug it
Shit ya rougher then boulder rocks labeled granite
Stoney elite fleet jeeps take me home
Buffalo batted and meson saved the chrome
Outro:
Well gentlemen we have all come to an agreement
Along with our darkside connection heltah skeltah
We will now be known as magnum force
You all have your orders, we have come to a successful agreement
Meeting is adjourned
But first leave your girlfriends new britches in the basket
Scratching
Wilde Flut, reißt mich durchs Leben
Setzen die Segel stramm, auf unsren Wegen
Und gar nicht fern, kann ich sie sehn
Die wahre Freiheit, ich werde nicht umdrehn!
Keine Chance! Leinen Los!
Ein dunkler Schleier
Blendet die Sicht
Bis unser Rumpf
Auf brausend Wellen trifft
Keine Frage
Zum Ernst der Lage
Ein unheilvoller Weg,
Der auf den Magen schlägt
Wilde Flut, mein Fluch und Segen
Hier zählt Zusammenhalt, das gilt für jeden
Auf diesem Schiff bin ich der Kapitän
Und kommt der Tag, werde ich mit dir untergehn
Seit Tagen schon, I'm Meer verlorn
Die Sinne schwinden schnell, nach 1000 Tagen langer Fahrt
Wo bleibt der Lichtblick, ein Schatz der mich erhellt?
Wilde Flut führ uns zur neuen Welt!
Zeit für was Neues hier!
Land in Sicht wir danken dir!
Fahren ein in weichen Küstensand
Ein warmer Duft uns lockt, das ist unser Land!
Was ist hier passiert?
Nicht ein Tier auf diesem trostlos Fleck,
Nicht ein Quell, statt Nahrung - Dreck!
Wilde Flut du greifst nach mir,
Ich komme mit, was will ich hier?
Die Bretter krachen und massieren meine Füße
Hier bin ich richtig und wünsche noch "Schöne Grüße"
Ein Tag wie dieser, hat mir ganz klar gezeit,