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How is con bacchette dure played?
Change to hard sticks or mallets suitable for the instrument, register and dynamic, then use the written stroke and playing area. Hardness is a relative category rather than a single material: wood, plastic, rubber or hard felt may qualify in different contexts. A harder head generally gives a more immediate, brilliant attack and stronger upper partials, but rebound, sustain and safe maximum dynamic depend on the instrument; do not infer that any hard object is permitted.
How does con bacchette dure sound?
A bright, crisp, well-defined sound with prominent high overtones.
In context
Con bacchette dure is the Italian plural instruction for hard sticks or mallets. It specifies implement hardness, not playing area, articulation or exact material, and normally contrasts with con bacchette morbide. Although bacch. is attested for the component noun bacchetta, the constructed con bacch. dure did not receive three direct expansions of the complete phrase, so the headword remains written out.
Music theory and score context
See also
- Percussion mallet (Wikipedia)
- Glossary of musical terminology (Wikipedia)
- Mallet (keyboard) percussion (Wikipedia)
- Kurt Stone — Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
- Musicca Dictionary — bacchetta
- Dolmetsch Online Music Dictionary — con bacchetta entries
- Yamaha Music Educators — Deconstructing Mallets