. Orchestration . into fixed harmonic patterns. The glissando as a standing dishhas to disappear from the Harp menu. It need scarcely be said that, putting aside its advantages in theway of chromatic passage-work and its disadvantages in the way ofglissando-chovds, one can treat the instrument orchestrally very muchas if it were an ordinary Double-Action Pedal-Harp. The student will be interested to see a specially written passageembodying chromatic features which could not possibly be played onthe ordinary instrument. The following quotation is from a workcomposed for the Chromatic-Harp. If t
. Orchestration . into fixed harmonic patterns. The glissando as a standing dishhas to disappear from the Harp menu. It need scarcely be said that, putting aside its advantages in theway of chromatic passage-work and its disadvantages in the way ofglissando-chovds, one can treat the instrument orchestrally very muchas if it were an ordinary Double-Action Pedal-Harp. The student will be interested to see a specially written passageembodying chromatic features which could not possibly be played onthe ordinary instrument. The following quotation is from a workcomposed for the Chromatic-Harp. If the student will merely writeout the pedalling necessary for the performance of these four bars onthe Double-Action Pedal-Harp he will see how widely different are themechanical conditions of the two instruments. No one in his wildestmoments would write such a passage for the older instrument, and, ifhe did, it would sound anything but vif et gai when performed. EXAMPLE 294. Delaborde. Scherzetto. Vif et Gai. It may be said that the special literature for the Chromatic-Harp isat present small. It tends, however, to increase in quantity. 478 ORCHESTRATION No. 54. The Fr. Mandoline ; It. Mandolino ; Ger. Mandoline. This is a small pear-shaped instrument with a fretted neck. It isfurnished with eight wire-strings tuned in pairs. The actual tuningas now standardized by the Neapolitan makers is the same as that ofthe Violin:
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