col legno

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See also: Collegno

English

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Borrowed from Italian col legno (literally with the wood).

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col legno (not comparable)

  1. (music) A musical notation indicating that the strings of an instrument are to be struck with the wooden part of the bow.
    • 1996, Kathryn Bailey, editor, Webern Studies, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
      Webern took particular care with the col legno passages. In the quiet ostinatos of the first and third pieces (which can be seen as parallel in many ways), he added weich gezogen (gently drawn) to the col legno indications.

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Literally, with the wood.

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col legno

  1. (music) col legno (the strings must be struck with the wood of the bow)
    Hyponyms: col legno battuto (literally with the beaten wood, beating the wood); col legno tratto (literally with the drawn wood, drawing the wood)