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It is announced by the horns con sordini, accompanied very softly by held notes in the strings, except viola, pizzicato in the celli, and tympani.
Edward MacDowell
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The pizzicato alone was worth the price of admission but the gorgeous sound of the brass was equally remarkable.
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The outer movements are both jazzy, with ostinati and motivic development in the first and brighter pizzicato textures and dance-like rhythms in the finale.
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Take for instance, his cantata: the use of pizzicato, or plucking strings, to express the clashing of swords.
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The second scherzo-like movement had syncopated, imitative strokes between the piano and oboe, with pouncing dissonances and pizzicato obbligati on the strings.
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There are sharp pizzicato accents everywhere, and once again, leave it to David Finckel to look like he is having the time of his life.
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The restless energy of the initial theme and its fugato companion return and lead to a headlong rush a la Mendelssohn to the movement's sudden end, on two quiet pizzicato chords.
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Their willingness to instill the piece with spirit is the great strength of the performance, though it sometimes leads them to overpluck the pizzicato of the second movement.
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The orchestration is again brilliant, with particularly effective use of trumpets, pizzicato, string moto perpetuo, harp, and glockenspiel.
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In the fourth movement (Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile) the pizzicato sforzandos were very accurate, loud, and pleasing to hear, as was the high playing of the first violin in the Presto.
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‘Nabucodonosore,’ with Count Pizzicato, with a bellezza, a grandezza, a raggio, that excited in the bosom of the audience a corresponding furore: her scherzando was exquisite, though we confess we thought the concluding fioritura in the passage in Y flat a leetle, a very leetle sforzata.
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The jazzy, flowing first movement made way for a stunning allegro: pizzicato ostinati, Spanish dance rhythms, dramatic passion to the fore.
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Many of the most demanding techniques of the present-day violinist are associated primarily with him, including ‘ricochet’ bowing, left-hand pizzicato, and double-stop harmonics.
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I would disapprove only of the needlessly dry string pizzicatos at the first suggestion of the variations' sicilienne-like theme.
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Whether the soft pizzicatos made it to the audience all the way in the back is doubtful.
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Young has a distinctive sound, whether arco or pizzicato, and this comes to the fore in the soulful and passionate performances in his conversations with pianist Walton.
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But elasticity was put to quite different use at the start of the rondo: in an exaggeration of tempo di menuetto, the strings' pizzicato sounded rather like the snapping of rubber bands.
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Watch Siem as he tosses off the left-hand pizzicato, double-stop harmonics and spiccato bowing as if he were buttering bread.
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This mode of playing is called pizzicato or plucking.
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Carter's pizzicato chording shadows Dolphys' statement of the melody before the leader lets rip with a solo crammed with trills, soulful cries and mercurial bop runs.
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Parker's role is less audible and less clearly defined; even though he is active throughout, alternating between arco and pizzicato bass.
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Pizzicato is when violins, violas, or cellos are played without the bow by plucking the strings sharply.
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A word that had the audience groaning - except, of course, the symphony team - was "pizzicato
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With respect to the amazing technical wizardry written into the original work (i.e. left-hand pizzicato, harmonics, spiccato bowings, etc.), Gao asserted, ‘I try to do as much as I can physically.’
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On "San Bernardino," about a couple who give birth in a bathtub in a highway-side motel, cellist Erik Friedlander sent back a score that layered urgent pizzicato over a languid melodic line.
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For example, in the A-minor concerto, the contrasting use of pizzicato versus arco with the same thematic material is a happy surprise, guaranteed to raise a smile.
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His playing is as imaginative and unpredictable as the source texts, flitting from bowed lyricism to mysterious pizzicato to downright scary scraping.
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The slow movement ‘Aria,’ finely adumbrated by pizzicato bass at the scherzo's end, is a grave conversation among the string sections and their principals.
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Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and xylophones, bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
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As the soloist waits, pizzicato quavers hurry along a twisted version of the piano's cadenza theme in the bassoons , everything still piano.
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The song was difficult to perform, with complicated pizzicato parts and arpeggios, requiring swift and flexible movements.
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When playing upon a soft combination on the Great, the organist may draw the Swell to Great "pizzicato" coupler.
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But elasticity was put to quite different use at the start of the rondo: in an exaggeration of tempo di menuetto, the strings' pizzicato sounded rather like the snapping of rubber bands.
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For example, in the A-minor concerto, the contrasting use of pizzicato versus arco with the same thematic material is a happy surprise, guaranteed to raise a smile.
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A section for pizzicato strings suspended over creepy melodic lines for piano and Celesta seemed to turn the orchestra into a giant, threatening insect.
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I seem to remember that although I couldn't play a note on the violin with the bow, I wasn't too bad at pizzicato.
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Pizzicato is a term that tells a string player to pluck the strings (so basically not use the bow until he sees the term "arco").
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The first movement's imitations came alive and the pizzicato second movement was coloured with delicate charm.
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‘Sam’ and ‘Two Rocks and a Cup of Water’ are magical pizzicato lullabies, intricate and tender, but with a razor-edged sweetness that manages not to be sentimental.
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Mr. Peacock's walking bass lines landed unassertively in all the right places, and his solos modestly crooned pizzicato melodies as Mr. Jarrett hung chords above them like Japanese lanterns.
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The more complete sourdine, which muted all the strings by contact of a long strip of leather, acted as the staccato, pizzicato, or pianissimo.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
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The track I went with has some great strings - I really dig the Cello anyway, so when its used this way, with both pizzicato and bowed sounds, it gets under my skin - chirping birds, insects, and the solid yet shuffling beat to carry it through with this weirdly dark sense to it.
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The greenish-yellow hair looked dull gold by lamplight; her eyes gleamed blackly from their blue crystallized lids (the bath of indigo being a stage device known to all devotees of the art), and her dancing, which immediately commenced to her own castanets and a subdued "pizzicato" from the two violins, was original and graceful, and free from any taint of vulgarity.
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_Con sordino_ and _pizzicato_ passages occur as often for the _cello_ as for the violin.
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