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How is con bacchette morbide played?
Change to a soft mallet suitable for the instrument, register and required dynamic, then retain the written stroke and playing area. Felt, yarn, cord, rubber and other coverings can all produce different grades of softness over a firmer core. A softer head generally rounds the onset and reduces the most prominent high-frequency attack, favouring a warmer or darker colour, but it does not automatically mean quiet, legato or long sustain and may respond poorly in some high registers.
How does con bacchette morbide sound?
A warm, dark, rounded sound with a gentle attack and reduced high overtones.
In context
Con bacchette morbide is the Italian plural instruction for soft sticks or mallets. It governs implement hardness rather than dynamic, articulation or contact point and normally contrasts with con bacchette dure. The component abbreviation bacch. cannot be transferred automatically: con bacch. morbide lacked 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