Listen closely to how Tchaikovsky uses dynamics to make contrasting loud and soft sections, and timbre when he thrown the sound through the string section from the first violins to the seconds to the violas, to the cello, and to the double basses.
4 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Daniel Barenboim, cond.) For the final return of the scherzo, both strings and winds play, but the strings only play pizzicato. notation in the sheet music, that is where the performer should use pizzicato. The third movement is a twist on the classical minuet / trio form by making is a scherzo / trio but the scherzo is only played by plucked strings and the woodwinds come in for the contrasting trio section (01:50), followed by the brass. Pizzicato is the action of plucking the string with your fingers, instead of using a bowing technique. One of the most interesting uses of pizzicato is in Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony, completed in 1878. If you can imagine the effect of this sound during the Vienna New Year’s Balls after all the singing strings of the various waltzes – now the air is cleared. Strauss II: Neue Pizzicato-Polka, Op 449 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Riccardo Mut, cond.) Josef Strauss: Pizzicato-Polka (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Carlos Kleiber, cond.)Īnd his brother, Johann Strauss II, writing the New Pizzicato Polka in 1892, We have Josef Strauss writing a Pizzicato Polka in 1869
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Many composers, from Back to Benjamin Britten have used this technique for anything from religious music to string quartets to full symphonies. It’s as though the string section has turned into a giant harp. They’ve put down their bows, and make the strings sound by plucking them with their fingers. The word in Italian means pinched or plucked and that’s what the string players are doing. Ready for PizzicatoWhen the string section changes from a lush sound to a percussive sound, we know that it’s all about pizzicato.
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