The Contemporary Violin

Patricia Strange; Allen Strange

doi:10.5771/9781461664109

Summary

Written by a composer and a musician, The Contemporary Violin offers a unique menu of avant-garde musical possibilities

that both performers and composers will enjoy exploring. Allen and Patricia Strange's comprehensive study critically examines extended performance techniques found in the violin literature of the latter half of the twentieth century. Drawing from both published and private manuscripts, the authors present extended performance options for the acoustic, modified, electric, and MIDI violin, with signal processing and computer-related techniques, and include more than 400 notated examples.

The authors begin with bowing techniques and proceed systematically through other aspects of string playing, including MIDI technologies. Their correspondence and research with many performers and composers, the book's extensive score and text bibliography, and the discography of more than 130 recordings make The Contemporary Violin a valuable contemporary music reference and guide. An additional benefit is its listing of Internet resources that will keep the reader up to date with recent developments in contemporary performance and composition. First published by UC Press, 2001.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2003
ISBN-Print: 978-0-520-22409-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-6410-9
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 337
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. Sul Ponticello No access
2. Sul Tasto No access
3. Sub Ponticello No access
4. Other Contact Points No access
5. Overpressure No access
6. Subharmonics and ALFs No access
7. Tremolo No access
8. Arpeggio No access
9. Bariolage No access
10. Battuto No access
11. Col Legno No access
12. Non-synchronous Bowing No access
13. Sustained Bowing No access
14. Beyond the String No access
15. Folk Traditions No access
16. Miscellaneous No access
1. 1. Pizzicato No access
  2. Fingered Tremolo No access
  3. Double Stops and Chords No access
  4. Other Right-Hand Articulations No access
2. 1. Pizzicato No access
  2. Slurs and Other Touches No access
  3. Vibrato No access
  4. Microtones No access
  5. Trills No access
  6. Glissando No access
  7. Arpeggio No access
1. 1. The Right Hand No access
  2. The Left Hand No access
2. The Bow No access
3. Other Strikers No access
1. Harmonic Overtones No access
2. Open Harmonics No access
3. Stopped Harmonics No access
4. The Bow No access
5. 1. Pizzicato Harmonics No access
  2. Pizzicato Effleuré No access
  3. Harmonic Glissandi No access
  4. Multiphonics No access
  5. Fawcetts No access
  6. Harmonic Trills No access
  7. Microtone Harmonics No access
  8. Pulled Harmonics No access
  9. Harmonic Multiple Stops No access
1. System versus Expression No access
2. Equal Temperaments Other than Twelve No access
3. Non-equal Temperaments No access
4. 1. Just Intonation Representation No access
  2. Performance Considerations No access
5. 1. Harry Partch: A Dream No access
  2. Lydia Ayers: In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods No access
  3. Lou Harrison: Suite for Violin and American Gamelan No access
  4. Ben Johnston: String Quartet No.4 No access
  5. Tony Conrad: April 1965 No access
  6. LaMonte Young: Chronos Kristalla No access
  7. James Tenney: KOAN No access
  8. Alvin Lucier: Navigations for Strings No access
  9. Alois Haba: Fantasy for Solo Violin on the Quarter-Tone System No access
  10. David Feldman: Arboreal Arabesques No access
  11. Allen Strange: Second Book of Angels No access
1. The Hutchins Octet No access
2. Extended Violins No access
3. Modified Bows No access
4. Scordatura No access
5. Mutes No access
6. The Prepared Violin No access
7. Vocables. Coloration. and Masking No access
1. Amplification No access
2. Levels No access
3. Pickups and Microphones No access
4. Electric Bows No access
5. Signal Processing No access
6. 1. James Tenney: Glissade No access
  2. David Rosenboom: The Seduction of Sapientia No access
  3. Larry Polansky: Here to Stay No access
1. Midi for the Violinist No access
2. MIDI Interfaces and MIDI Violins No access
3. Max No access
4. 1. John Adams:JohnYs Book of Alleged Dances No access
  2. Larry Polansky: Here to Stay No access
  3. Mari Kimura: Gemini No access
  4. David Jaffe: Other Worlds No access
  5. Daniel Oppenheim: Concerto in D: The Creation No access
  6. Daniel Weymouth: This Time, This No access
  7. Mark Grey: Spadefoot No access
  8. Allen Strange: Sleeping Beauty No access
Appendix A. Tunning Math No access Pages 269 - 270
Appendix B. Midi Messages No access Pages 271 - 272
List of Figures No access Pages 273 - 284
Notes No access Pages 285 - 292
Bibliography No access Pages 293 - 298
Scores No access Pages 299 - 310
Discography No access Pages 311 - 318
1. Research. Centers. Institutes No access
2. Publishers and Recording Companies No access
3. Composers. Artists. and Scores No access
4. Manufacturers and Hardware No access
Index No access Pages 325 - 337