La Flûte de Pan

La Flûte de Pan (FR) Pan's Flute (The Pan-Pipes). Debussy's setting (1897, Chansons de Bilitis #1) for voice and piano of the prose-poem #30 »La Flûte« from the Bucoliques en Pamphylie section of Pierre Louÿs' Les Chansons de Bilitis. In the 1895 edition of the poems, this one was #20, and was titled »Le Syrinx.« The pan-pipes are an ancient musical instrument, formed of reed tubes of graduated lengths, attached side by side with grass and/or wax. One end is blown across, and the other is left…