Mathieu Dufour's limpid flute tone floated nicely above and within Schoenberg's and Mozart's music.
Tastes, and the intentions of players, vary widely in the matter of flute tone.
This flute features flute tone and the vibration of strings (through the placement of a string on the side of the flute).
Then the bearded musician, Manen, began to play the simple flute tones she had whistled.
He was the first person to use the old warble technique (in which a single flute tone "splits" into a multiphonic oscillation) within the context of contemporary classical music.
Schoenberg's sense of instrumental character and color was very much in evidence, whether in Rafael Figueroa's grand phrases on the cello or Mike Parloff's cool flute tones and spiky piccolo.
Again Sssuri whistled, and in that cry Dalgard heard a close resemblance to the flute tone of the night moth birds.
When comparing pipes of otherwise identical shape and size, a wide pipe will tend to produce a flute tone, a medium pipe a diapason tone, and a narrow pipe a string tone.
Not only is the orchestral timbre rich and clear, but the instrumental soloists play beautifully in their brief passages (although the flute tone tends to be somewhat airy and heavy with vibrato).
Mr. Xenakis, too, was intent on using every possible color (and note) an organ can produce, from ethereal flute tones to distant thunder and a full-throated metallic roar.