At 10:30 AM -0500 5/13/11, Robert Patterson wrote:
I'm curious to know if the collected wisdom of this list knows of examples
in orchestral rep. of violin pizz. notes of b''' (5 leger line-b) or higher.
Obviously, the closer to standard rep., the more likely I am to have the
score and/or recording.
I have googled references to Berlioz having written a'''. This seems like a
question that Gardner Read's excellent "Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices"
might answer, but it doesn't specifically address the question.
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Perhaps that's because, with respect, it's a meaningless question.
Write the notes you want and we will play them. You might not like
the SOUND you get, of course, just as I would probably never write
for the top octave of the piano, but there is no theoretical limit to
the highest range on the violin. And pizz. is not really a special
effect at all.
Just don't write anything below a small g!!!
(And yeah, I know it's been done, but scordatura was a lot easier in
the days of gut strings than it is today.)
John
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