It names a polka composed collaboratively by Johann and Josef Strauss, and the ninth variation of Paganini's 24th violin caprice employs the (*) "left-hand" form of this technique.
The orchestra plays in this style for most of the scherzo of Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony and also enters in this manner after the brass solo at the beginning of Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture. It names a polka composed collaboratively by Johann and Josef Strauss, and the ninth variation of Paganini's 24th violin caprice employs the (*) "left-hand" form of this technique. The fourth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique uses it to depict the rolling of a severed head, and Bartok names a type of this technique where the string slaps loudly against the fingerboard. For ten points, name this technique where string players pluck the strings with their finger.
The orchestra plays in this style for most of the scherzo of Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony and also enters in this manner after the brass solo at the beginning of Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture.
pizzicato (accept plucking before mention) &lt;HX&gt;