Did you notice my double-stopping at the very end?' '

It is littered with double-stopping in the violins and violas.

Soulful double-stopping turned the second “Aria” into an eloquent postscript to Mass.

Finch covered his head with the bedclothes and fingered some double-stopping on the mattress.

The superiority of S. consisted in double-stopping and arpeggios, which he paraded ad nauseam.

This was later confirmed by Ysaÿe, who acknowledged he wrote the double-stopping "over Chausson's framework".

He joined the same team the following summer to play the Beethoven Concerto with a "beautiful tone, superb sense of phrase and spectacular double-stopping".

He was a master of the Italian virtuoso style of the eighteenth century, with frequent use of double-stopping and passages at high positions.

The stirring 36-bar Andante introduction is marked "sempre marcatissimo" and littered with double-stopping in the violins and violas, forming towering chordal structures.

Savage also plays with great soul in the resonant double-stopping of Alright With You and duets beautifully with piano in the plaintive Evening Song.

In the cadenzas, his double-stopping was perfection, virtuosic without sacrificing musicality, while his expressive phrasing and melting tone in the Adagio of the concerto was simply beautiful.

A lot of hornpipes and tunes of varied rhythmical emphasis using much double-stopping (i.e. playing two notes/strings together) often compositions are composed or rearranged to incorporate two or more fiddlers.

The opening number on their White House programme they had decided after much discussion and hot argument, would be the Bach 'Chaconne in D.' Al had always liked it, despite the difficulties involved, the double-stopping and all.

The easiest chords of two notes are, of course, those of which one note is an open string, but by 'double-stopping', i.e. stopping two notes on adjacent strings, any of the following may be safely written:

Much of the music reveals the influence of Italian sonatas and concertos, but the typical tendency of German solo violin music to rely on polyphony is still present: fantasias 2, 3, 5, 6, and 10 all include fugues and employ much double-stopping.

Short studies in double stopping, for the violin through all the keys.

There are also double stopping, chords or using scordatura tuning.

Double stopping is when stopped notes are played on two adjacent strings, producing a two-note harmony.

The music is technically demanding: fully polyphonic with frequent instances of tricky double stopping.

This is called double stopping.

Westhoff's violin writing is highly advanced, featuring double stopping up to the fourth position.

Double stopping is when two separate strings are stopped by the fingers, and bowed simultaneously, producing a sixth, third, fifth, etc. harmony.

VIIa:1), impressed with his outstandingly attractive tone, particularly in double stopping.

One of the trademarks of Keith's solo playing is his double stopping, based, as he says 'on an old blues trick.'

The Tarantella is in a typically relentless Neapolitan 6/8 rhythm, with left-hand pizzicatos, double stopping and other effects.

Double stopping is also used to mean playing on three or all four strings at once, although such practices are more properly called triple or quadruple stopping.

Characteristic of Kelly was the tuning of his fiddle in AEAE, so he could use droning and double stopping.

Albertini's sonatas are very demanding technically, with frequent instances of difficult fast passages, leaps, sudden changes of register and, particularly in the last sonata, double stopping.

Book V - 20 Etüden, Doppelgriffe (20 Studies in Double Stopping) (1891)

It is not difficult to play two open strings at once, but fingering two strings at once can be very difficult, so double stopping is an advanced technique.

Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach in Germany or Arcangelo Corelli in Italy often require double stopping when writing for solo string instruments.

Tonleiterstudien für Violine in Doppelgriffen zum praktischen Gebrauch beim Unterricht (Scale Studies for Violin in Double Stopping), Op.

Publication of the quartet was delayed when the composer's preferred publisher, C.F. Peters initially rejected the quartet because they believed the double stopping in some movements would require the work to be rewritten as a piano quartet or quintet.

Three or four strings can be played at once, but only at very high dynamic levels and with a very loose bow - sometimes the effect of a chord is produced by double stopping quickly on two strings and then on the other two.

Lonati's few extant violin works reveal a bold, fluent style with (in his 1701 12 Sonate per violino e basso continuo) prominent double stopping and use of scordatura, as well as the idiosyncratic melodic writing that runs through all his music.

Double stopping means playing two notes at once on a bowed string instrument by drawing the bow across two strings at once while "stopping" two notes by pressing the fingers down on the fingerboard: one finger on each of the two strings being played.

With Ace Doubles stopping production in the early 70s and the Gollancz Binary 2 series out in the early 90s, any fans of the tête-bêche format should get their fixes while they can ... based on the trend, it might be another 20 years before the head-to-tail book is back in favour again.