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Musical instruments, 1925
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1the sonority, so much stronger was the down-stroke than the up-stroke.
3By carefully utilizing the various bow strokes, observing the interchange of legato and staccato, an infinite variety of phrasing is possible.
5TREMOLO
7A valuable feature of the Violin technique consists in the rapid repetition of one, two or more tones, producing a trembling, appropriate to intensely agitated moods, or again in pianissimo passages in the upper registers it is suggestive of exaltation. We thus find the tremolo employed by the great masters to intensify moods varying from the contemplation of the Holy Grail, to Hagen's murder of Siegfried.
9Beside the measured tremolo, where a definite number of tones are produced, as in the Introduction to Act III of Lohengrin (No. 35 a and b), there is the indefinite tremolo, where we often find the word tremolo above the notes in order that the quality of agitation may not be missing (No. 35 c).
11No 35.
12Allegro molto
13ff
14Lento tremolo
16SALTANDO OR SPRINGING BOW
18Akin to the various phases of tremolo is the so-called springing bow, which consists in striking the string with the bow in such a manner as to cause it to
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