Dolz flute
Dolz flute (like “ Dulzian ” from Latin dulcis “sweet”), also Dulz flute , Dulcian flute , Amorosa , Lieblichflöte describes a cylindrical recorder that was used in the 17th century and was blown from the side. Furthermore (above) open labial pipes in the register of an organ , which have a particularly gentle sound, are called Dolz flutes .
In the 19th century, transverse flutes in general and beak flutes were sometimes referred to as Dolz flutes . Flauto dolce is the current Italian term for recorders, while the French term Flûte douce refers to the organ register.
Design of the flute
Since the flute was blown through a core gap, it is one of the recorders; because of the side opening it was not correctly called a transverse flute . The instrument had seven tone holes, one of which was covered with a key. The range was between c 'and g' '' two and a half octaves .
Organ register
Dolz flutes on the organ are mostly made of wood, open labial pipes with a narrow scale (narrow cylindrical shape) that are controlled by a manual . Their length in the register is eight feet (about 2.4 meters), which corresponds to the normal pitch C, less often four feet (about 1.2 meters) corresponding to the pitch c, an octave higher, according to the usual dimension designation for the organ. From the end of the 16th and 17th centuries, the designation flûte douce can be found for a wide-bore flute in France. In Michael Praetorius (1619), however, the Dolz flute is a tightly bored, overblowing transverse flute, as it was built by Friedrich Stellwagen in 1659 for the organ of St. Mary's Church in Stralsund . Also with Andreas Werckmeister (1698) and in the 19th century (with the sons of Johann Friedrich Schulze and Ernst Röver ) it has a narrow gauge. According to Christhard Mahrenholz (1929) it refers to a long open transverse flute with a narrow scale or an overblowing flute in an 8 'or 4' register.
From the end of the 17th century, flûte douce was understood in northern and central Germany as an analogy to the recorder and a conical construction in an 8 'or 4' position was preferred. The building by Arp Schnitger and in southern Germany in the 18th century is documented several times. At the same time, from the 17th century there was a variant as a covered recorder with a narrow scale, which was initially distributed north of the Main and from the 18th century penetrated to southern Germany and the Netherlands. In individual cases, the Dolz flute had special shapes with a reed flute (as in the case of Andreas Schweimb and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll ) or was designed twice, twisted, parallel-walled or, especially in German organ building from the 1950s, also funnel-shaped.
literature
- Roland Eberlein : Organ register. Their names and their history . 3. Edition. Siebenquart, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-941224-00-1 , p. 253-260 .
Web links
- Edward L. Stauff: Dulz Flute. In: Organ Encyclopedia. Organ stops
- Dolz flute . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 5 . Altenburg 1858, p. 230 ( zeno.org ).