up-bow
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of up-bow
First recorded in 1885–90
Vocabulary lists containing up-bow
Music - Middle School
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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Music - High School
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Example Sentences
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Then comes the bright, episodic finale, “The Girl and the Scrapbook,” which takes flight with up-bow flourishes and a casual reference to Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
In my pain, I calibrated my energy so that I would survive the end: 23 C major chords that, in a taxing display of youthful vigor, we had decided to play almost all up-bow.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020
In music for stringed instruments of the violin family, the sign indicates down-bow and the sign up-bow.
From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson
The change from up-bow to down-bow and vice versa should be made without a break, exclusively through skillful manipulation of the wrist.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman
The conductor of a symphonic orchestra does not care how, technically, certain effects are produced by the violins, whether they use an up-bow or a down-bow.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman
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