Extended technique Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Extended technique is a term used to describe unconventional, unorthodox or "improper" of playing musical instruments.

Examples include:

• added electronics or MIDI control
• unusual bowinging technique: double stops and multiple stops, sul ponticello, sul tasto, Col legno
• breath technique or articulation: multiphonics, tonguing or flutter tonguing, continuous breathing or circular breathing, trumpet half-valve playing, humming while blowing, blowing a disengaged mouthpiece or reed, unusual mutes
• Sprechstimme (speech-singing)
• prepared piano
• Unusual harmonics, including multiphonics
• glissandi
• String microtones (vertical and linear)
• exaggerated tremolo
• exaggerated brass head-shakes
• activating keys or valves without blowing
• tapping or rubbing the soundboard of stringed instruments
• alternate fingerings

Well known performers and composers who use a notable amount of extended techniques include:

• composer Sofia Gubaidulina
• vocalist Joan La Barbara
• vocalist Shelley Hirsch
• vocalist and composer Meredith Monk
• composer and multireedist Joseph Celli
• pianist and composer David Tudor in his own work and in the prepared piano techniques of Cage and the New York School
• cellist and improviser Frances-Marie Uitti
• rock flautist Ian Anderson
• composer Robert Erickson
• trombonist Stuart Dempster
• bassist Bertram Turetzky

See also: List of pieces which use extended techniques

Reading

• Stuart Dempster's The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms, ASIN 0520032527.
• Patricia and Allen Strange's The Contemporary Violin, ISBN 0520224094, and other books in The New Instrumentation'' series.
• Bertram Turetzky's The Contemporary Contrabass ASIN 0520063813.

External link

• Woodwind Fingering charts
• New Sounds for Flute by Mats Möller

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