“PIZZICATO” in italiano

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pizzicato

pizzicato

A section for pizzicato strings suspended over creepy melodic lines for piano and Celesta seemed to turn the orchestra into a giant, threatening insect.

The song was difficult to perform, with complicated pizzicato parts and arpeggios, requiring swift and flexible movements.

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.

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.

The orchestration is again brilliant, with particularly effective use of trumpets, pizzicato , string moto perpetuo, harp, and glockenspiel.