VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bassoon, Pizzicato, Jean Ritchie
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Zither an instrument in which the strings run the length of the body. Drone a continuous sound on one or more fixed pitches. Sympathetic string a string that is not normally played upon directly but that is set in motion by the acoustical phenomenon of resonance. Pizzicato the strings are plucked with the finger rather than bowed. Richard strauss, don quixote, variation ii (1897) ( the victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor alifanfaron ) 0:00 don quixote"s theme (sancho panza"s theme joins in at 0:11) 0:20 our heroes encounter a flock of sheep. 0:38 the flock slowly moves and the sounds of the sheep grow louder as the don and. 1:13 don quixote"s theme returns triumphantly after the sheep scatter. Tonguing the use of the tongue for articulation in the playing of wind instruments; the tongue releases the wind stream for an initial attack and interrupts it for successive notes that are separately articulated.
