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Examples of extended techniques include bowing under the bridge of a string instrument or with two different bows, using key clicks on a wind instrument, blowing and overblowing into a wind instrument without a mouthpiece, or inserting objects on top of the strings of a piano.
Extended techniques. An extended technique uses an instrument in a different way than it is normally played to create a new sound. Harmonics on string instruments, which involve touching one’s finger (s) on a string at specific intervals to create a warm-sounding tone at a different frequency, are a common example of extended techniques.
Extended techniques are performance techniques used in music to describe unconventional, unorthodox or "improper" techniques of singing, or of playing musical instruments. Although the use of extended technique was uncommon in the common practice period (c. 1600 - 1900), extended techniques are more common in modern classical music since about ...
That "extended technique" is a relational expression is just built into the grammar of what it means to extend or to be an extension. Something is an extension of something else, or something is modified in some way by being extended. So "extended technique" is technique that is extended in relation to something else--presumably to "unextended ...
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Dec 9, 2011 · Wikipedia defines extended techniques as “performance techniques used in music to describe unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional techniques of singing, or of playing musical instruments to obtain unusual sounds or instrumental timbres.”
Jan 15, 2021 · Extended technique is often defined as unconventional and/or non-traditional ways of singing and playing an instrument in order to produce sounds that are atypical. This is a flawed definition if it does not address that we are taught to approach our understanding of extended technique through a Eurocentric classical music lens.
