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Pages in category "String performance techniques" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Position (music) S. Scordatura; Spiccato; Stopped ...
String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since the 20th century. Particularly famous examples of string instrument extended technique can be found in the music of Krzysztof Penderecki (particularly his Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima), Witold Lutosławski, George Crumb, and Helmut ...
String performance techniques (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "Musical performance techniques" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Under free bowing, however, the string members each determine individually the best way to play a set of notes, collectively producing a deeper sound, free of mechanical restriction. Free bowing is rarely used today in Western classical music because of its lack of communal focus, which can cause musicians to play out of step with each other. [3]
In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres. [ 1 ] Composers’ use of extended techniques is not specific to contemporary music (for instance, Hector Berlioz ’s use of col legno in his Symphonie Fantastique is ...
Two ways in which the martelé bowstroke is commonly notated. An excerpt from Dotzauer's cello étude no. 6, played with martelé bowing. Martelé (French pronunciation: [maʁt(ə)le]; literally meaning "hammered") [1] [2] is a percussive bow stroke used when playing bowed string instruments, though the Italian martellando and martellato are also applied to piano and vocal technique, and even ...
In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners.
A pull-off is a stringed instrument playing and articulation technique performed by plucking or "pulling" the finger that is grasping the sounding part of a string off the fingerboard of either a fretted or unfretted instrument. This intermediate- to advanced playing technique is done using the tip of a finger or fingernail on the fretting hand.