Cello Natural Harmonics Performed with the Double-Node Technique

Authors

  • Cláudio Urgel Pires Cardoso University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Keywords:

Musical Performance, Cello, Harmonic Tones

Abstract

The article is a study on a performance technique of the cello natural harmonics in which two adjacent nodes, of the same mode of vibration and on the samestring are touched simultaneously. The technique has three special utilities: first, it increases the number of nodes for the performance of some natural harmonics; second, it makes easier to perform musical passages in which harmonic tones are involved; third, it reinforces and assures the performance of any natural harmonic. Three examples of the application of the double-node technique to musical passages of the cello repertoire are presented.

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Author Biography

Cláudio Urgel Pires Cardoso , University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Cláudio Urgel Pires Cardoso (claurgel@musica.ufmg.br) is Doctor and Master of Music/Violoncello at the University of Iowa - USA, under the guidance of Prof. Charles Wendt. Cláudio Urgel had his undergraduate and graduate studies at the UFMG's School of Music with Prof. Watson Clis. He is currently Professor at the UFMG School of Music, where he was Head of the Department of Instruments and Singing and has been Director since October 1998. He is currently coordinating a research group that is developing an analytical study guide for violin and viola. He has performed with the Campinas Symphony Orchestra, Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra, Experimental Chamber Group of the Art Education Foundation, in addition to several presentations in chamber groups, contemporary music groups and as soloist with the EMUFMG Symphony Orchestra.

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Published

2000-06-15

How to Cite

Cardoso , Cláudio Urgel Pires. 2000. “Cello Natural Harmonics Performed With the Double-Node Technique”. Per Musi, no. 01 (June):1-23. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/38353.

Issue

No. 01 (2000): General Topics

Section

Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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