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CATEGORIES ABOUT EXTENDED TECHNIQUE

extended techniques

SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

EXAMPLES INCLUDE

added Electronics or MIDI control

unusual s and Multiple Stop s, Sul Ponticello , Sul Tasto , Col Legno

s, Tonguing or Flutter Tonguing , Continuous Breathing or Circular Breathing , trumpet half-valve playing, humming while blowing, Double Buzz , blowing a disengaged mouthpiece or reed, unusual Mute s

Sprechstimme (speech-singing)

Ululation

Prepared Piano and Prepared Guitar

String Piano

unusual Harmonic s, including Multiphonics

Glissandi , Tuner Glissando

string Microtone s (vertical and linear)

exaggerated Tremolo

exaggerated brass head-shakes

activating keys or Valve s without blowing

tapping or rubbing the Soundboard of stringed instruments

alternate fingerings

altered tunings ( Scordatura )

Tapping

combination of a Mouthpiece of one instrument with the main body of another. (Alto Saxophone mouthpiece combined with a standard Trombone is a particularly successful permutation.)

turning the Mouthpiece of a Woodwind instrument upside-down and playing as normal.

WELL KNOWN PERFORMERS AND COMPOSERS WHO USE A NOTABLE AMOUNT OF EXTENDED TECHNIQUES INCLUDE

Composer Henry Cowell

composer John Cage

composer Sofia Gubaidulina

composer Helmut Lachenmann

Vocalist Joan La Barbara

vocalist Shelley Hirsch

vocalist and composer Meredith Monk

vocalist and composer Maja Ratkje

composer Krzysztof Penderecki

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 , two bows and curved bows

Violinist , Violist and Improviser Ernesto Rodrigues , curved bow

Flautist Ian Anderson

composer Robert Erickson

trombonist Stuart Dempster

bassist Bertram Turetzky

composer Ben Gaunt

rock guitarist Tom Morello

rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen

rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix

guitarist Derek Bailey

guitarist Fred Frith

classical guitarist Štěpán Rak

guitarist Enver Izmailov

jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk

bassist Michael Manring

guitarist Kenneth Johnston with Curable Interns

SEE ALSO

List Of Pieces Which Use Extended Techniques

READING

Stuart Dempster 's ''The Modern Trombone : A Definition of Its Idioms'', ISBN 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 '' ISBN 0520063813.

Michael Edward Edgerton's ''The 21st Century Voice,'' ISBN 0-8108-5354-X, and other books in ''The New Instrumentation'' series. Scarecrow Press, 2005.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Woodwind Fingering charts

New Sounds for Flute by Mats Möller

The Orchestra: A User's Manual by Andrew Hugill with The Philharmonia Orchestra. Includes definitions, descriptions and video interviews of extended techniques for most all common orchestral instruments.