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The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques. (Book Reviews: Instruments).(Book Review)
The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques. By Patricia Strange and Allen Strange. (The New Instrumentation.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. [xiii, 337 p. ISBN 1-55553-472-4. $26.95 (hbk.); ISBN 0-520-22409-4. $24.95 (pbk.).] Music examples, bibliography, discography, list of scores, internet resources, index.
The violin family is beloved for its seemingly infinite flexibility of sound, color, and nuance. For centuries the voice of the violin has been prized for its proximity in character to the human voice, sharing its capacity for subtlety as well. Closer to our own time, composers have begun to branch out and consider the violin ...
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