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(music) to play on two stopped strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously..
Divisi in the orchestra greatly reduces the need for double-stopping, per se, in this form of string playing.
Some Greek musicians have used open tunings on the violin and double-stopped the strings to produce a drone.
The whole movement gives the soloist an opportunity for hair-raising virtuosity, from rapid arpeggios and spectral harmonics to languid parallel sixths, double-stopped trills and, in the trio, a stratospheric cantabile, again on harmonics.
There has been some question concerning whether the downbeat of m. 19 should be a triple-stop with the open D string as the bottom note or a double-stop with the open A string as the bottom note.
You can play a double-stop on adjacent strings or on nonadjacent strings (by skipping strings).
If you're a beginner player, you can always choose not to play a double-stop and instead play just the top note.
Use double-stop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Double-stop means (music) to play on two stopped strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously..
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Divisi in the orchestra greatly reduces the need for double-stopping, per se, in this form of string playing.
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