Word: pizzicato
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heritage from the musical past) and was quite lighthearted compared to the general severity of the piece. Throughout the Quintet composer Sessions demonstrated a fantastic command of string emsemble sounds and effects: the use of block chords in the four upper strings underlined by 'cello pizzicato, as well as the fleeting recurrences of muted ponticello, were particularly notable...
...struck a humorous note with the Three Little Little Pieces of Mark DeVoto '61. In the first, very brief, piece, one anxiously awaited the entrance of the guitar player--who obliged with one strain at the very end of the movement. In the second, the sole twelve-tone piece, pizzicato strings, harp and per cussion executed difficult rhythms gracefully if not perfectly. At the end of the third piece, a dirge with an ostinato bass, the orchestra turned into a chorus and sang the final chord. Happily, Biss repeated the performance for an amused audience...
...length of Karl Marx Alice even the weathered posters of Walter Ulbricht seemed to be smiling. Then, just before dark on Christmas Day, two 18-year-old East Germans made a break for the Wall. As the boys scrambled over the barbed wire, searchlights blazed and flares burst. A pizzicato of burp guns played brief counterpoint to Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Lungs shredded by Vopo bullets, Electrician's Apprentice...
Their bow tips rise and fall over their nine violins with the discipline of smoothly moving piston rods. Be neath the ping of a pizzicato the big-bellied strings-three violas, three cellos and a bass-growl like well-tuned sports cars. The horns sing out on the curves as the harpsichord taps its deli cate echo in the background...
...Italian Renaissance out of its hidebound musical stance. As a young master of the madrigal under the patronage of the ducal Gonzaga family of Mantua, he met with success but grew weary of music's rigid rules. The seesaw violin bored him, so he invented the tremolo and pizzicato...