double-stops

The precision of her bow arm allows for perfect attacks and releases on double-stops, even at the level of a whisper.

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin virtuoso, sizzles on Brahms Robert Battey 2010

"Riconocenza per Goffredo Petrassi" (Stephanie Nussbaum, combining high-contrast articulation and infectious joy) is a parley of intervals: soft "consonant" double-stops side-by-side with loud "dissonant" ones, before both combine into a gentle close.

Magna Carter (7): Either/Or Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Figment II (also played by Bates) is very different; a tribute to Ives '"Thoreau" and "Hallowe'en" that ends up sounding for all the world like early music, quieter and more rhythmically sober that Figment I, with oblique chains of double-stops forming a kind of free organum, around a whispered middle section washed over with harmonic glissandi.

Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

"Riconocenza per Goffredo Petrassi" (Stephanie Nussbaum, combining high-contrast articulation and infectious joy) is a parley of intervals: soft "consonant" double-stops side-by-side with loud "dissonant" ones, before both combine into a gentle close.

Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Melody is usually in the chords somewhere, and you can pick single notes or double-stops or arpeggios and come up with an intro or break between verses.

More on Music Steve Perry 2010

Figment II (also played by Bates) is very different; a tribute to Ives '"Thoreau" and "Hallowe'en" that ends up sounding for all the world like early music, quieter and more rhythmically sober that Figment I, with oblique chains of double-stops forming a kind of free organum, around a whispered middle section washed over with harmonic glissandi.

Magna Carter (4): Identity Politics Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Richard Thompson joked that he was on the “obscure has-been stage,” but he has a new album, “Sweet Warrior,” and songs that he is willing to plunge into: with quivering double-stops, with modal melodies that could be folk tunes but take untraditional turns, and phrases that might bend like the blues, peck like country or glide in midair like raga, even more startling and incisive than his lyrics.

Bonnaroo: Two Well-Traveled Guitarists - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Richard Thompson joked that he was on the “obscure has-been stage,” but he has a new album, “Sweet Warrior,” and songs that he is willing to plunge into: with quivering double-stops, with modal melodies that could be folk tunes but take untraditional turns, and phrases that might bend like the blues, peck like country or glide in midair like raga, even more startling and incisive than his lyrics.

Bonnaroo: Two Well-Traveled Guitarists - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Times wrote, “Hahn-Bin began with a clean focused sound that grew steadily brawnier and more assertive And when he returned to Kreisler after a pair of contemporary works, it was to play a bright but warm-toned performance of the Recitative and Scherzo, a more overtly virtuosic work, packed with showy effects, among them trilled double-stops.”

Jim Luce: Young Korean-American Hahn-Bin Wows Carnegie Hall In Debut Performance 2009

You don't usually see people playing pieces full of trills and double-stops and cadenzas in the subway, and they are often pretty half-hearted about it.

Would you recognize Joshua Bell in a Metro station? bradamant 2007