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scordatura

In music, tuning of the violin or other string instruments temporarily to other intervals than the normal tuning, for the purpose of facilitating the playing of chords with certain intervals or altering the instrument's tone-quality. The music is still written as for the normal tuning (and fingering), so that the instrument becomes to that extent a transposing instrument (see transposition).

There are many examples of scordatura in the violin works of Biber; also a famous passage for solo violin in Mahler's Fourth symphony.
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Like Biber's Rosary Sonatas they also use scordatura (retuning of the strings)--a technique also employed in the last preserved instrumental piece by Dr.
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1) Perhaps it comes as no surprise that the field of music is rich in its owl terminology describing gradations of volume and tempo (forte and piano, lento and allegro), techniques specific to particular musical instruments (pizzicato, scordatura, con legno) and the forms that a movement or part of one within a compositions can take, (rondo, scherzo, da capo aria, coda).
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