. Orchestration . cult to put the distinction into words, and perhaps moredifficult to give any but a dynamic reason for a preference in anyindividual passage. A very little attention to the mental effect pro-duced by the two tone-qualities will soon give the student aninstinctive appreciation of their differences. As most of the examples given above have been of quiet pizzicatos,the following three short quotations will illustrate the use of the pizzf. The first, from Act I. of Humperdincks Hansel und Gretel, showsa very effective series of loud pizz chords accompanying the Sopranovoice. The
. Orchestration . cult to put the distinction into words, and perhaps moredifficult to give any but a dynamic reason for a preference in anyindividual passage. A very little attention to the mental effect pro-duced by the two tone-qualities will soon give the student aninstinctive appreciation of their differences. As most of the examples given above have been of quiet pizzicatos,the following three short quotations will illustrate the use of the pizzf. The first, from Act I. of Humperdincks Hansel und Gretel, showsa very effective series of loud pizz chords accompanying the Sopranovoice. The chords in the 2nd Violin part are marked in the score tobe played together; that is to say, each player is to play bothnotes. They are all very simple. Gretel. 1st Violins. 2nd Violins. Violas. Cellos. Double-Basses.(sounding anoctave lower.) EXAMPLE piu allegro. Humperdinck. Hansel und Gretel. fcipr Fifticup*g-pii\titWrmi Wie Hansel, den Fingern,dunaschhafterWichtPizz-. fizz.^p The next example of the use of the pizz for more heroic purposes 1 Two Horns and a Clarinet, omitted above, enter on the note D with the Basses inthe fourth bar. THE VIOLIN 371 is to be found during the final fortissimo of Berliozs King LearOverture. The noise and flare of the full orchestra is suddenlyinterrupted by a / pizz for tutti Strings: a moment later there is asecond string chord pizz but p. This picturesque piece of orchestrationhas been cited by Strauss as a stroke of genius in the employment ofthe pizzicato. He says, This passage gives me at every hearing theimpression of a fibre breaking in the heart of Lear—or, in a morerealistic sense, of a blood-vessel bursting in the brain of the madKing. The two pizzicatos are quoted below, but, in order toappreciate their effect, one really needs to see what is on the left andon the right-hand side of these six bars. EXAMPLE disperato ed agitato assai. f?\ Clarinets in C. Wood-wind. 1st Violin
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