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Musical instruments, 1925
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1cio Espagnol, the composer obtains a startling effect by causing all the Violins and 'Cellos to strike the strings back-and-forth, and to be sure that his intentions are carried out he takes pains to mark them with the down and up marks used in bowing. (See No. 37).
3A further elaboration of the process we find in this great Russian's symphonic poem Scheherazade, where he virtually calls for a pizzicato tremolo, but the climax of all pizzicato achievement is to be found in the Scherzo of Tchaïkovsky's Fourth Symphony where the entire string group from the Violins to Double Basses play throughout the movement with never a touch of the bow.
5COL LEGNO
7Sometimes in order to produce a certain weird and unusual effect the composer demands that the strings be struck "with the wood" (col legno) of the bow. So the players apply the back of the bow instead of the hair. This procedure was one of the many original devices employed by Saint-Saëns in his Danse
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