Extended technique

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

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Music - Musical instrument

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Examples include:

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• added electronics or MIDI control
• unusual bowing 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, double buzz, blowing a disengaged mouthpiece or reed, unusual mutes
• Sprechstimme (speech-singing)
• ululation
• prepared piano and prepared guitar
• Unusual harmonics, including multiphonics
• glissandi, tuner glissando
• 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
• Plucking the strings of the piano.

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

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• composer Sofia Gubaidulina
• vocalist Joan La Barbara
• vocalist Shelley Hirsch
• vocalist and composer Meredith Monk
• vocalist Maja Ratkje
• 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
• rock flautist Ian Anderson
• composer Robert Erickson
• trombonist Stuart Dempster
• bassist Bertram Turetzky
• rock guitarist Tom Morello
• guitarist Derek Bailey
• classical guitarist ?t?pán Rak
• jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• bassist Michael Manring
 
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