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Its ecstasy droops, and after a little flutter as of little wings, the elaboration opens with the Spring motive in the minor. Then the conclusion rushes in; this I consider one of the most joyous themes ever inspired. There is a coda of vanishing bird-wings and throats, a pizzicato chord on the strings and Spring has had her coronation.
'It is a graceful act on the sea's part, she said. 'Wotan is so clumsy he knocks over the bowl, and flap-flap-flap go the gasping fishes, pizzicato! but the sea Helena's speech was often difficult to render into plain terms. She was not lucid. 'But life's so full of anti-climax, she concluded. Siegmund smiled softly at her. She had him too much in love to disagree or to examine her words.
These and still other types of voice are relatively unimportant in English and most other European languages, but there are languages in which they rise to some prominence in the normal flow of speech. One cannot sing continuously on such a sound as b or d, but one may easily outline a tune on a series of b's or d's in the manner of the plucked "pizzicato" on stringed instruments.
Here in a quiet spot though the battle has clearly not ceased is the answer of old trumpet motto, that pervaded the first Allegro. There is a strong feeling of the Scherzo here in the pizzicato answers of strings. The second theme of the Andante is recalled, too, in the strokes of the second of the Finale.
They scatter the lotus flowers faded by the artificial heat, which, falling in pieces from every vase, sprinkle the guests with their pollen and large pink petals, looking like bits of broken, opal-colored glass. The sensational piece, reserved for the end, is a trio on the 'chamecen', long and monotonous, that the geishas perform as a rapid pizzicato on the highest strings, very sharply struck.
Significantly the drums begin the tune, to a dancing strain of pizzicato strings. The tune is so elemental that the drums can really play it; the answer is equally rude, an arpeggic motive of strings against quick runs of the higher wood. Out of it grows a tinge of tune with a fresh spring of dance, whence returns the first savage motive.
She sang the delicious duet of the 'Nabucodonosore, with Count Pizzicato, with a bellezza, a grandezza, a raggio, that excited in the bosom of the audience a corresponding furore: her scherzando was exquisite, though we confess we thought the concluding fioritura in the passage in Y flat a leetle, a very leetle sforzata. Surely the words, 'Giorno d'orrore, Delire, dolore, Nabucodonosore,
The quality of tone which he produced was clear and pure, but not excessively full, and, according to Fétis, he was a master of technique and phrasing rather than a pathetic player, there was no tenderness in his accents. It is said that Baillot used to hide his face when Paganini played a pizzicato with the left hand, harmonics, or a passage in staccato.
Then came the soft pizzicato of pulled strings, ... and a tinkling jangle of silver bells beating out a measured, languorous rhythm, and with one accord, they all merged together in the voluptuous grace of a dance more ravishing, more wild and wondrous than ever poet pictured in his word-fantasies of fairy-land!
Then Kate, still needing no music on the rack before her, played the "Miserere" from "Il Trovatore," a Hungarian "Czardas," Mendelssohn's "Frühlingslied" and the overture from "William Tell." She followed these with the "Intermezzo" and the "Pizzicato" from "Sylvia," and then with "Narcissus" and "Sans Souci."
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