The substantial first-movement development is largely in the minor, with solo bravura passages overpizzicatoaccompaniment featuring in both outer movements.From theCambridge English Corpus
The very first section features a typically multi-layered texture with helter-skeltering violin scales speckled withpizzicatostrings, brass and keyboards.From theCambridge English Corpus
The source of inspiration is not hard to decipher: frequently recurring tuttipizzicatostrumming figures conjure up images of water lapping the sides of gondolas.From theCambridge English Corpus
During this particular session we were working on the idea of simultaneouspizzicatoon both sides of the string.From theCambridge English Corpus
The use ofpizzicato(on-string) in the piano part, which begins the work, also helps bring the instruments' timbres closer together.From theCambridge English Corpus
The return of the scherzo is silenced rather as the first movement, with a singlepizzicatochord.From theCambridge English Corpus
Mostly focusing onpizzicato, it includes examples of tremolo, trills, glissandos and harmonics.From theCambridge English Corpus
Inpizzicatoviolin, strummed or plucked guitar, and piano, the user is not in continuous contact with the primary resonator.From theCambridge English Corpus
At bar 21, the strings abruptly change their material frompizzicatoto sustained double-stop chords.From theCambridge English Corpus
The use ofpizzicatostrings moving in parallel fifths, fourths and octaves and the rapid xylophone figuration hardly represent innovations in musical japonisme.From theCambridge English Corpus
This is especially marked in the second and third sections where the slow-moving chords and agitatedpizzicatorhythms have a portentous quality.From theCambridge English Corpus
Resonances internal to objects (hollow wooden resonance, metallic resonance, stringed instrumentpizzicatoresonance, etc.) can give the impression that their vibrations are enclosed by some kind of solid material.From theCambridge English Corpus
Pizzicatoopen fifths sound in the low strings at the beginning of the coda.From theCambridge English Corpus
The music begins like a window opening on a forest: the dawn chorus bursts in, played by 17 solo instruments, accompanied by a heartbeat onpizzicatostrings.From theCambridge English Corpus
Music of a livelier disposition followed with much rhythmic figurations for cello accompanied by sprightlypizzicato, which ultimately led to a big tutti with a sweepingly romantic violin tune.From theCambridge English Corpus
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