Next one passes from song to dance, the scherzo being a kind of Cossack dance orchestrated in the most piquant style, the strings playing pizzicato throughout.
Tschaikowski employed it almost throughout an entire movement, the "Pizzicato Ostinato" in his Fourth Symphony.
There is a coda of vanishing bird-wings and throats, a pizzicato chord on the strings--and Spring has had her coronation.
The Finale begins (Allegro ma non troppo, 3-4) with a staccato theme for bassoons and pizzicato strings, which is interrupted by the blustering entry of the piano.
The middle section is built on a runningpizzicato passage.
A passage in chords for the piano alone leads to the more expressive second subject, heard in the oboe with a pizzicato accompaniment.
The pizzicato tuning of a violin is heard through the window.
The sphinx-like song of the grand priestess is again heard, and then every sound is hushed excepting the dreamy pizzicato movement in the violins that so resembles the flitting of moonbeams.
The following measures are of indefinite nature, beginning piano and pizzicato as if a great body were gathering headway slowly.
The second movement begins with a series of subdued, pizzicato chords (for strings and harp) which establish the mood and later furnish the harmonic background for the main theme.
The short, dashing Coda is based on the vivace theme, with sonorous chords on the violin, both pizzicato and arco.
In the fifth measure after R the basses begin, pizzicato but forte, a modified statement of the second theme, accompanied by a new counter melody on the pianoforte, dolce ma marcato, e.
The Scherzo is unique as an orchestral tour de force; for, with the exception of a short middle portion for wood-wind and brass, it is for the string orchestra playing pizzicato throughout.
Here the celesta gives out the entrancing melody, with pizzicato strings accompanying.
The melody is given to the flute against a pizzicatofigure sustained by bassoons and double basses.
A short Allegro molto follows, in square time, the pizzicato accompaniment being chiefly in double notes, with occasional chromatic harmonics.
There are some rapid pizzicatopassages for the violoncello.
In the Trio, in D major, the melody is given to the guitar, with a pizzicato accompaniment for the other instruments.
Here the violin is the solo instrument, the others supporting with rich harmonies, the 'cello emphasising the rhythm with frequent pizzicato notes.
This begins with an Adagio, C major, three-four measure, with a melody for the bow, and left hand pizzicato accompaniment.
The theme is simply set forth, and the variations serve for the display of bravura playing with pizzicato and harmonics in the second movement, fourth string melody, and double harmonics in the third, and with the Finale resembling a Galopade.
Music: Pizzicato Polka by Leo Delibes] Among the other 2-4 rhythms are the Polka, suitable for Ballet work.
Thus in the above-mentioned aria the lower strings having begun pizzicato play pizzicato throughout, the first violins remain muted throughout, and the organ plays staccato throughout.
By the divisions of the violins, the skilful employment of violas and 'cellos, and the judicious combination and alternation of bowed and pizzicato passages, the composer succeeds in producing many picturesque effects.
Upon arriving in Rome, Bianca and Pizzicato repaired to their father's brother-in-law, who was well known as a lavish entertainer.
At the birth of Bianca her mother died, leaving her to the care of her broken-hearted father and brother Pizzicato (destined later on to make the world ring with his music).
Contemporary history informs us that Bianca stayed in the Palazzo Tempo di Valse for seven years, visiting Pizzicato from time to time, and employing herself with various love affairs.
The student should remember that taste may be brought into play in the method of executing pizzicato passages.
In all pizzicato passages the strings should be plucked in such a manner that they oscillate from side to side during their vibration; if they are allowed to snap against the fingerboard, the sound will be instantly checked.
The pizzicato touch is a Hope-Jones invention which, though publicly introduced nearly twenty years since, did not meet with the recognition it deserved until recently.
As additional methods facilitating in some cases the transfer of stops must be named the "double touch" and the "pizzicato touch.
Solo Unison to Great (first, second, and pizzicato touch).
By means of this pizzicato touch (now being fitted to all Hope-Jones organs built in this country) a great variety of charming musical effects can be produced.
Holding the violin in his arms, Basil Norman mounted the platform, the fingers of his left hand picking quiet, pizzicato notes from the strings.
Above the distant roll of the artillery, one gun stood out like a pizzicato note on a giant bass violin.
His left hand pizzicato is marvellous, and he makes runs in single and artificial harmonics as quickly as most violinists can play an ordinary scale.
It is said that Baillot used to hide his face when Paganini played a pizzicato with the left hand, harmonics, or a passage in staccato.
Difficult pizzicato passages and runs in thirds and tenths at top speed are but as child's play to him.
When playing an accentuated pizzicatowith the left hand, while the melody was played by the hand of the bow, the fourth finger pinched the string with prodigious power even when the other three fingers were placed.
Pizzicato with the left hand and obbligato glissando!
Pizzicato pianissimo, says the direction on the score.
Dorabella's air (28) suggested by the quavers on the oboe, and the general clinking of glasses in the last finale by the pizzicato of the violins.
Pizzicato passages occur only three times--in the trio of the D minor quartet (421 K.
