Crownover Orchestra - Extended Techniques

Crownover Orchestra

Extended Techniques

String Instrument Extended Techniques

Col Legno (beginning - cello bass section)

Gustav Holst - "Mars" from The Planets (1914)

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Tapping on Instrument (throughout), Bowing behind bridge (1:01), numerous other techniques.

Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)

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Bowing behind the bridge - Grand Canyon Suite Movement III: On the Trail - solo violin represents braying donkey

Ferde Grofe - Grand Canyon Suite (1931)

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Scratch Tone/Glissando (5:54)

Bernard Herrmann - Psycho Theme (1960)

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Glissando (beginning), Buzz pizz. against screw of bow (beginning), Trill/Fingered Tremolo (beginning), Col legno (beginning), Tremolo (beginning), Snap pizz. (4:02) Tapping on instrument (5:39), Ricochet bowing (6:11), Bowing behind bridge (6:11)

Zhou Long - Song of the Ch'in (1982)

Zhou Long - Living Composers Project

Col legno (3:26)

Biber - Battalia (1673)

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Scordatura tuning - solo violin plays an open string double stop on A and Eb (E string tuned down a half-step) Spiccato (3:35-3:50)

Saint Saens - Danse Macabre (1874)

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False Harmonics

Cello starts 1st movement solo playing a whole phrase using false harmonics

Shostakovich - Piano Trio No. 2 (1944)

Snap pizz. (18:25) Mutes (Soridino) - Whole 2nd movement played with mutes (6:33) Glissando (4:11)

Bela Bartok - String Quartet No. 4 (1928)

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Harmonics - (0:54, 2:36, 3:17, 4:30, 5:59) Glissando (1:38) Trill (2:33) Double Stops (almost the whole time from 1:43-4:00) Spiccato with pizz. (3:07)