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Topic History of: Music question for informed tipsters Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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JK2006
Fascinating stuff!
Pru
You're welcome!
Pru
Here's the man himself on using the technique:
"Although I started my career as an organist, later on I played mainly Bass in orchestras. For everyone writing orchestra pieces, playing a string instrument is an excellent experience, since one acquires a valuable technical knowledge of the most important part of the orchestra. As a bass player I got first hand knowledge of the resources of a string orchestra and became particularly interested in the use of the Pizzicato, which is very often neglected by composers. As one populist example of how one can use the Pizzicato I wrote a little piece with the title "Plink, Plank, Plunk!" The string players have to lay down their bows and from the beginning to the end of the piece, pluck the strings of their instruments."
Pru
You can find many examples in Hollywood movies going back to the 1930s, but I'd say the American Leroy Anderson inspired many popular musicians to copy him - he was composing movie music, theme tunes, jingles and stock music with this technique prominent in the late 1940s, and then his 1951 'Plink, Plank, Plunk' prompted loads of copycat versions.
JK2006
Ah Strat, the creative people making incredible and original sounds in the late 50s/early 60s are very much linked (Spector, Meek, Barry, Holly, etc). Not only were they aware of each other and influenced by each others experiments but often huge fans of each other (and furious with envy - Meek on Spector for example).
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