double-stop
See also: double stop
English
editVerb
editdouble-stop (third-person singular simple present double-stops, present participle double-stopping, simple past and past participle double-stopped)
- (music) to play on two stopped strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.
- 1957, Clifford A. Cook, String teaching and some related topics, page 39:
- Divisi in the orchestra greatly reduces the need for double-stopping, per se, in this form of string playing.
- 2003, Aline Scott-Maxwell, John Whiteoak, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia, page 69:
- Some Greek musicians have used open tunings on the violin and double-stopped the strings to produce a drone.
- 2008, Paolo Petrocelli, William Walton and the Violin Concerto in England between 1900 and 1940:
- The whole movement gives the soloist an opportunity for hair-raising virtuosity, from rapid arpeggios and spectral harmonics to languid parallel sixths, double-stopped trills and, in the trio, a stratospheric cantabile, again on harmonics.
Noun
editdouble-stop (plural double-stops)
- (music) a chord or combination composed of two notes played on separate strings simultaneously.
- 1999, Joel Lester, Bach's Works for Solo Violin: Style, Structure, Performance, →ISBN:
- There has been some question concerning whether the downbeat of m. 19 should be a triple-stop with the open D string as the bottom note or a double-stop with the open A string as the bottom note.
- 2012, Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell, Guitar For Dummies, →ISBN, page 96:
- You can play a double-stop on adjacent strings or on nonadjacent strings (by skipping strings).
- 2014, Michael John Sanchez, Fiddle For Dummies, →ISBN:
- If you're a beginner player, you can always choose not to play a double-stop and instead play just the top note.