History Main / AvianFlute

* ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'' by Sergei Prokofiev: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITBphW3qB0s The bird is represented by the flute]]. While this may not be the TropeMaker, it is almost certainly the TropeCodifier.

* Music/TwoStepsFromHell's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Dh3ftkRAs Flight of the Silverbird]]" begins with a soaring flute solo that evokes thoughts of the titular bird.

* The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's version of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o1_h7qWThg The Friendly Beasts]]" (arr. Mack Wilberg) has a chirping piccolo after the verse about the "dove from the rafters high".

* In the Manuel de Falla ballet ''The Three-Cornered Hat'', the first scene begins with a miller trying to teach a bird to count to two. The bird, represented by the piccolo, frustrates him with sequences of three and then four tweets. Later, as the cuckoo clock counts nine (the cuckoo being symbolic because the Corregidor, having arrested the miller on a pretext, is about to pay a visit to his wife), the same piccolo tweets echo each clarinet cuckoo call.

-->-- '''Itzhak Perlman narrating ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'''''

->''Now, in our story, the characters are represented by instruments in the symphony orchestra--for instance, the bird by the high sounds of the flute.''
-->--'''Itzhak Perlman narrating ''Music/PeterAndTheWolf'''''

* The Music/{{Carpenters}} song "It's Gonna Take Some Time features a flute solo that resembles birdsong; perhaps referencing the earlier phrase in the first verse: ''"The birds on the telephone line, are crying out to me"''

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* ''Mother Goose Suite'' (''Ma Mere L'Oye'') by Music/MauriceRavel exists in versions for piano four-hands and orchestra. The second movement, "Little Tom Thumb," depicts the title character's trail of bread crumbs being eaten by birds; the orchestral version scores its cheeping bird-like music for flutes and piccolo.

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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Dragon Roost Island is home to the [[BirdPeople Rito]]. The island's theme music has a woodwind melody over a jaunty, upbeat background to create a light, airy feel.

* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGB1B2XIClI Greenfinch and Linnet Bird]] begins with fluttering flutes as Johanna, watching birds in cages, likens herself to one of them, singing about her own desire for freedom.

** "Lob dem hohen Verstandes" (In Praise of High Intellect), from the ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn'' collection, is a comic song about a singing contest between a cuckoo and a nightingale, with Mahler using the stereotypical woodwind instruments to characterize each bird.

** "Lob dem hohen Verstandes" (In Praise of High Intellect), from the ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn'' collection, is a song about a singing contest between a cuckoo and a nightingale, with Mahler using the stereotypical woodwind instruments to characterize each bird.
** The third movement of Symphony No. 3 begins with an instrumental orchestration of another ''Des Knaben Wunderhorn'' song, "Ablösung im Sommer," proclaiming the cuckoo's death and the nightingale's consequent ascendance. Not surprisingly, the opening prominently features flutes, clarinets, piccolo and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs piccolo clarinet]], with the song's melody beginning on the piccolo. (The song version was not orchestrated by Mahler.)

* The "Aviary" movement from ''Carnival Of The Animals'' by Camille Saint Saens makes prominent use of flutes and piccolo, containing fast scalar passages and trills that evoke comparison to a flock of birds.

* Parodied in ''Film/RoadToZanzibar'', where, after some dialogue discussing the use of an InvisibleOrchestra in movies, a bird call is {{Mickey Mouse}}d to the sound of a flute. Creator/BingCrosby asks it to take it down a semitone, and the bird, or rather invisible flutist, obliges.

* In Music/RichardWagner's ''[[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Siegfried]]'', the titular hero realizes he can understand a bird (represented by the flute) after tasting the blood of the dragon Fafnir, and they have a conversation. The interlude "Forest Murmurs" from that same opera also includes birdcalls on flutes.

* Music/GustavMahler mimicked bird calls with flutes (and clarinets) in his Symphony No. 1 in D-Major ''Titan'' and Symphony No. 2 in C-Minor ''Resurrection''.