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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1The left hand pizzicato is done by vehemently pulling back the fingers just used and in that way sounding the next note below. This applies to the passages as found in Paganini and other writers of bravura technic for the left hand. When single notes only are played, either the third or fourth finger is employed for the pizzicato, the first or second stopping the note.
3The quality of the tone of the right hand pizzicato can be modified to a certain extent by either plucking directly upward, causing a hard short, incisive tone, or by a side or horizontal pulling of the string, permitting of longer vibration and, in consequence, effecting a somewhat longer and more agreeable tone. In playing chords the same rules hold good as with chords played with the bow. When the musical character is a decided one simultaneous plucking of all strings is desired when a harp-like effect is wanted, i.e., a broken chord like result with little tone is aimed at, then a sweeping over the strings, with the fingers almost flat against the strings is advised.
5HARMONICS.—These may be classified as either natural or artificial. The former can be produced only at those points of the string where the natural overtones of the tonic tone of each string occur. Any finger placed lightly at such a place on the string, so lightly that the string can vibrate below and above, will produce a natural harmonic. Artificial harmonics are formed by placing (generally) the first finger firmly on the string, forming a new base, and resting the fourth finger (usually at the interval of a fourth above) lightly as before. The harmonic resulting from this application sounds the note of the double octave of the bass. When the interval of the fifth is used the harmonic sounds the octave above the fifth, the octave of the note lightly played by the fourth finger.
7In harmonics, one great essential is perfect intonation. Harmonics cannot speak clearly or quickly when the intonation is the least inexact. The natural harmonics are, of
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