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It's pretty wild that this i 
written just before Boccherini.

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And people are experimenting 
with what the cello can do.

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And this piece is, it goes 
kind of into,

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I'd say viola range.

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It goes high, 
but not anything crazy.

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And it's Boccherini 
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to the next level.

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He really developed 
thumb position,

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and that's when

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we bring our thumb u 
and it becomes an extra finger.

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So...

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And suddenly 
we can be a cello,

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we can be a viola, 
we can be a violin as well.

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There's a few instances 
of thumb position beforehand.

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We see it in Bach and stuf 
like that, but it's very sparse,

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very functional, and it's prett 
cool to think that just modern

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cello playing and modern 
cello making

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is all kind of coming together 
right around the same time.

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Hey, let's play that by 
Boccherini sonata

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the one with that crazy 
thumb position.

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Do you want to start? 
- You start.

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I'll take the next part. 
- Ah ok, well switch.

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Bravo.

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Bravo, guys.

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Even for us 
today, it's a real challenge

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to play with the thumb 
and to play high.

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So even 300 years later, 
Boccherini is challenging us.

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So, Paganini 
to the violin.

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Boccheirni to the cello. 
- Absolutely.

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Boccheirni takes 
this new range

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of the cello, this violin 
range, and applies it

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to the string quartet genre 
making a cello quintet.

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So two cellos.

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Personally, I think all music 
should have two cellos.

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And it at least! 
- It makes things better.

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But what's so cool about that is 
we have this added sonority,

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this whole new sound worl 
and genre of music and chamber

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music specifically.

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And since then, many other

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composers have used this 
cello quintet format.

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So we can thank 
Boccherini for that.

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It's hard to imagine 
how original this was

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using a bass instrument 
to trade soprano lines

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with the first violin.

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Only a virtuoso of 
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would even attempt it.

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