smidgen(S)

Time Stamp: 0:00 — 1:12
Description:

Many playing techniques, including extended techniques are heard in the opening of this piece! Check off the playing techniques that you hear:

• Col Legno
• Pizzicato
• Cello Harmonics
• Piano "knocking sound" (Playing keys with piano strings muted)
• Plucking the piano strings
• Cello Tremolo
• Piano Harmonics (tapping a piano string at a specific spot, and playing a key)

Keywords: Articulation - Misc. , Col Legno , Extended Technique - Composition Technique , Pizzicato , Tremolo - Articulation

Time Stamp: 2:26 — 2:50
Description:

Listen for the differences in timbre in this section of this piece, when the piano plays the same note as the cello!

Compare how the same note sounds on each instruments. What are the similarities and differences that you hear?

Keywords: Timbre - Composition Technique , Timbre - Instruments