Flashcards
Musical signs
Cards in this deck (25)
- 1—Highest note possible or any very high note
- 2G.P.General pause: everyone has a whole bar rest at the same time
- 3+Left hand pizz
- 4—Bartok or snap pizz - RH snaps string against fingerboard creating a percussive sound
- 5slap pizz.usually on double bass and cello, hand slaps string producing a percussive sound - generally on the offbeat
- 6pizz a la chitarrapizz holding the violin like a guitar
- 7col legno trattoback of bow drawn across the string producing a quiet, thin, ghostly sound
- 8spiccatobow is bounced on the string
- 9jete / ricochetbow is thrown against the string
- 10martelefirm, detached bow stroke
- 11—bow drawn across strings with maximum pressure so the sound becomes distorted and there is no real 'note' at all
- 12con sord / con sordinowith mute
- 13artificial harmonics :one finger stops the string firmly while another finger lightly touches the same string
- 14glissandoslide between notes
- 15portamentoa small slide just before the note
- 16tremolandooscillate between two notes indicated
- 17Sul *string*Played on that string - lower string = darker tone colour
- 18behind bridge (with X noteheads)Played behind bridge - high, squeaky tone
- 19—slap tongue: loud, resonant smack sound
- 20—key click: keys pressed noisily against the instrument body
- 21—jet whistle: air blown forcefully, quickly, loud glissando-like sound
- 22multiphonicsbreathy
- 23timbre trilltrill to the same note - only change in timbre
- 24flz.fluttertongue
- 25—
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- Flashcards on Musical signs, created by Tarini Samarasinghe on 18/10/2020.
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- Tarini Samarasinghe · Oct 2020
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- Oct 19, 2020
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