Meanings
plural fluviols
- entertainmentA small piccolo-like wooden flute used to accompany the sardana.
Sardanas begin with an improvised fluviol solo introduction of ten measures.
2008, Robert Francis Waters, Déodat de Séverac: Musical Identity in Fin de Siècle France, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 1771 more example
They are danced to the music of a curious orchestra of eleven instruments. The uppermost of these instruments is the fluviol, which is the melodic agent in the primitive combination of two instruments performed upon by the same player.
1929 August 11, Olin Downes, “As to the Sardanas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Origin
- Catalanfluviol
- Englishfluviol
Borrowed from Catalan fluviol.
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