Definitions for col legno
col leg·no

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1. col legnoadverb

   A musical notation indicating that the strings are to be struck with the wood of the bow.

2. Etymology: Italian, from col, with the, legno, wood

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1. Col legno

   In music for bowed string instruments, col legno, or more precisely col legno battuto (pronounced [kol ˈleɲɲo batˈtuːto], Italian for '"with the wood [being hit]"'), is an instruction to strike the string with the stick of the bow across the strings.

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1. Col legno

   In music for bowed string instruments, col legno, or more precisely col legno battuto, is an instruction to strike the string with the stick of the bow, rather than by drawing the hair of the bow across the strings. This results in a quiet but eerie percussive sound. Col legno is used in the final movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin, which predates the more famous use in the "Dream of Witches' Sabbath", in the final movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, in the score of the film Alien by Jerry Goldsmith, as well as in "Mars, the Bringer of War" from Holst's The Planets, the first movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. An early example can be found in Tobias Hume's "Harke, Harke." The percussive sound of col legno battuto has a clear pitch element determined by the distance of the bow from the bridge at the point of contact. As a group of players will never strike the string in exactly the same place, the sound of a section of violins playing col legno battuto is dramatically different from the sound of a single violin doing so. The wood of the bow can also be drawn across the string — a technique called col legno tratto. This is much less common, and the plain marking col legno is invariably interpreted to mean battuto rather than tratto. The sound produced by col legno tratto is very quiet, with an overlay of white noise, but the pitch of the stopped note can be clearly heard. Col legno tratto is used in the first and the third movements of Webern's Four Pieces for violin and piano.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of col legno in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of col legno in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Col_Legno
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_Legno
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=col legno