Meaning of double-stop | Babel Free

Definitions

to play on two stopped strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.

Examples

“Divisi in the orchestra greatly reduces the need for double-stopping, per se, in this form of string playing.”

“Some Greek musicians have used open tunings on the violin and double-stopped the strings to produce a drone.”

“The whole movement gives the soloist an opportunity for hair-raising virtuosity, from rapid arpeggios and spectral harmonics to languid parallel sixths, double-stopped trills and, in the trio, a stratospheric cantabile, again on harmonics.”

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