10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COL LEGNO»
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Orchestral Bowing -- Style and Function: Textbook
Other Special Effects and Techniques ColLegno (kohl-LAY-nyoh) The technique
of Col Legno is not a bow stroke per se, but a sound effect created by the wood of
the bow stick contacting the string in various ways including Detache, Spiccato, ...
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The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet
Col legno Two fundamental varieties of col legno stroke co-existed in the
twentieth century: tratto (drawn), during which the bow-stick is drawn across the
string; and battuto (hit), usually indicated by a wedge above the note, in which the
stick is ...
In the loud col legno passages in the second piece (and in the first version of the
fourth piece), where he clearly intended a 'noisy' effect, he added the modifiers
gerissen (II, b. 9; IV, b. 9, first version) and heftig(ll, b. 10). In his letter to Hartmann
...
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The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques
Erb, in his String Trio, begins the second movement with the violin and cello
playing a col legno battuto tremolo glissando (fig. 3.23). 6 col le gno 8 fl battuto
tremolo FIGURE 3.23. Col legno battuto tremolo glissando in String Trio by
Donald ...
Patricia Strange, Allen Strange, 2003
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Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist
The next intriguing variant occurs a few measures later in "The Augurs": it is the
extensive col legno (battuto) of part of the string accompaniment to 24-27
inclusive. Both the celli and violas strike their repeated C's and F's with the wood
of the ...
6
All Things Strings: An Illustrated Dictionary
(It.) With the bow, usually indicating the end of a pizzicato passage. col legno. (It.)
Play with the wood of the bow. Col Legno is usually short for col legno battuto,
meaning to strike the string with the stick in a percussive manner. Much less ...
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Extended Notation: The Depiction of the Unconventional
Both actions may be performed col arco and col legno. Lachenmann further
utilises two different methods for their notation: in »Klangschatten – mein
Saitenspiel«57 a special note (and the addition legno saltando) is used for the
depiction of ...
8
Musical Signification: Essays in the Semiotic Theory and ...
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The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for ...
E R COL LEGNO Col legno (pronounced "call lenyo"), Italian for "with the wood,"
is an instruction that composers write in the music when they want string players
to sound notes by hitting the strings with the wood of their bows (the stick) ...
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Anatomy of the Orchestra
Since then the effect has been fairly frequently adopted, especially by the neo-
Viennese school, where it is to be found even in lyrical passages: Ex. 65 Berg, 3
Stucke aus der Lyrischen Suite Molto tranquillo col legno weich gezogen ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COL LEGNO»
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col legno is used in the context of the following news items.
Cello Like You've Probably Never Heard It
Col legno: Latin for 'gently thwacked with the back of the bow'. 5 x round robin per note. Two mic positions- valve condensor and contact mic. «Sonic State, Jun 15»
Tous les soirées du monde
Most striking in this selection was “Hark, hark” with its use of bowed and plucked strings, and a col legno bowing notated as “Drum this with the ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
Harmony in the Pews
These sections were framed with care: sometimes by abrupt, col legno sounds, but other times, the composer handed off the momentum from ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
CD Review: Hilary wins
The fiery Turkish entry is part D, taking an A-minor dramatic turn, with the strings occasionally playing "col legno"--striking their strings with their ... «NUVO Newsweekly, May 15»
Voices and Strings concludes Vancouver New Music season
... manner, resulting in a flurry of shimmering textures built upon the sounds of muted pizzicato, snapping strings, and bows played col legno. «I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, Apr 15»
Review: Music From Yellow Barn: In Return for My Song | Soundings …
Again, too strong an emphasis on special effects in the strings, including ricochet col legno, playing with the wood of the bow, distracted from ... «TheaterJones Performing Arts News, Apr 15»
Spasstich Affair from Criers
... collecting and featuring the most expressive new string techniques of the time: col legno, sul ponticello, pizzicato, glissando, and the like. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Apr 15»
New Insights Into Familiar Works
The col legno at no. 83 didn't really work; col legno battuto almost never does unless at least a few bow hairs are allowed to touch the string so ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Apr 15»
Upbeat Life Forces à la Parker
... pointillistic sparks, from snapped pizzicati to scampering col legno. As Helix Spirals begins it's as though we witness the first molecular bonds ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Apr 15»
Brooklyn Rider string quartet provides two hours of unalloyed …
... spiccato (bouncing the bow hair on the strings) and col legno (touching the strings with the wooden part of the bow) effects. These percussive ... «Washington Post, Mar 15»
