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135454930 Extended Techniques for Cello - 部分25

The document summarizes an example from a book that lists percussion techniques for string instruments without making comparisons between the techniques or describing their sounds. The list includes techniques like slapping or tapping strings with fingers or objects but provides little information about the resulting sounds. A summary listing techniques lacks context about sound or variations, and could be more informative by describing acoustic principles.

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135454930 Extended Techniques for Cello - 部分25

The document summarizes an example from a book that lists percussion techniques for string instruments without making comparisons between the techniques or describing their sounds. The list includes techniques like slapping or tapping strings with fingers or objects but provides little information about the resulting sounds. A summary listing techniques lacks context about sound or variations, and could be more informative by describing acoustic principles.

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problem of listing techniques without making comparisons or connections between them or their resulting sounds.

This can be well illustrated with the following example from Gardner Reads Compendium of Instrumental Techniques. Read is listing percussive devices in the violin family. Under each entry he gives the names of several composers who have used the technique.

1. Slap/strike the strings with the flat left-hand fingers over the fingerboard 2. Same, with the fingers over the bridge 3. Tap the strings with the fingers 4. Trill on the strings with the left-hand fingers (no bow) 5. Tap on the string with a left-hand fingernail 6. Tap on the string with two right-hand fingers (quasi trill)

There are twenty-two entries in this list. Read then moves on to devices mainly applicable to violoncello and/or contrabass:

1. Slap the four strings with the left-hand fingers near to or on the instrument neck 11. With a large wooden salad-tossing spoon in the left hand, strike the strings behind the bridge 12. Same, with a tablespoon 16. Same with a chopstick63

Despite the length of the list, the information that the reader takes away from this passage is extremely limited, Read gives an idea of what has been done, without consequence in terms of sound or possible variations on technique outside this list (how much simpler and more informative is the statement: the denser the object with which the string is struck, the more overtone-rich the sound?). A further problem in listing technique is when illogical subdivisions are
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Gardner Read, Compendium of Modern Techniques (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993), 92100.

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