Music especially composed for string instruments
String music
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Tuning peg
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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…
Tuning pin
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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…
Sob
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an ornament used in lute playing, where the left hand pressure on the string follows the plucking of the string, to create a…
Arrange
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to set a work originally written for one instrument (or set of instruments) for another instrument or set of instruments
Barre
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a device that clamps to the neck of a plucked string instrument and which change its tuning by shortening the sounding length…
Bas instruments
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soft instruments suitable for chamber music
Haut instruments
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loud instruments, particular those designed to be played out of doors
Instrumentation
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the disposition of instruments in a musical work, which instruments plays what lines in the score