Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a cadenza or series of cadenzas in an instrumental piece; sometimes, more specifically, in music for stringed instruments, a rapid passage to be played chiefly on the open strings, without the aid of stopping.
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- noun music A rapid
alternation of twonotes on twostrings of aviolin etc
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Examples
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Westhoff incorporated techniques like bariolage, a fast alternation between static and changing notes, which Bach also used to create contrapuntal textures.
NYT > Home Page By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER 2011
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Westhoff was a master at handling bariolage, a technique that requires the violinist to play all four strings at once.
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Westhoff was a master at handling bariolage, a technique that requires the violinist to play all four strings at once.
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After a properly "symphonic" preparation by Sanders, Nadien makes ardent sense of Vieuxtemps delicately melodic figures and their concomitant trills and bariolage requirements.
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Brian said that the bariolage triplets at [9] "remind me of being in Kansas; I think of this as a hoedown," he said.
Violinist.com 2009
bilby commented on the word bariolage
"'We're back in D-minor. The same chord that Brahms uses in the introductory theme of his first piano concerto. The 'Chaconne' radiates throughout all of classical music. We're approaching bar two twenty-nine, where it modulates into bariolage; Bach seesaws between the open A-string and changing notes on the D-string. The music mourns but, at the same time, is filled with vitality.'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
March 19, 2008