Well, I didn't recognize the term, so I guess I've never heard it
used for this particular ornament. My father called it "noodling,"
but that includes both measured and unmeasured alternation. I have
played it, as you say, countless times, know how to read the
notation, know how to write the notation, and can even accept the
term readily because there's a certain internal logic to it, but to
THIS string player a tremolo is done with the bow and what the left
hand is doing is a trill, albeit one of a larger interval than a
major 2nd. I wonder whether a trill of an augmented 2nd would be
called a trill while one of a minor third (same interval) would be
called a tremolo under this terminology?
Could this be a European vs. U.S. difference in terms? Like the use
of "measure" or "bar," which are synonyms on this side of the pond
while I've seen Brits argue that there are two different meanings?
John
At 6:38 PM -0500 2/18/06, Darcy James Argue wrote:
John,
You've seriously never heard of a "fingered tremolo" before? It's a
tremolo of rapidly alternating pitches played on a single string,
without rapid changes of bow direction -- in other words, it's
exactly like a trill, but with a larger interval.
I'm sure you've *played* them countless times before, so what do you
call them?
- Darcy
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On 18 Feb 2006, at 4:52 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 3:03 AM +0000 2/18/06, John Bell wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the French terminology is for finger
tremolo in string instruments?
Thanks
John
Hi, John. Could you explain the English meaning you understand?
What, in other words, is a "finger tremolo"? It isn't a term this
string player is at all familiar with. Vibrato? Bow pulsation?
All are possible, as is a true tremolo (unmeasured continuously
alternating bow strokes).
John
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