double stop
noun
The playing of two notes at once on a violin or similar bowed instrument.Ravel's Tzigane - Rhapsodie de Concert is a dazzling display piece that encompasses double stops, harmonics, pizzicatos, glissandos, and all the technical challenges of Paganini's twenty four Violin Caprices, plus a few more....
- This collection of Italian waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and tarantellas for solo violin is an excellent teaching tool for double stops, scales, arpeggios and style. 2-5 min. each.
- In the violin version, he writes double stops, pizzicato and tremolo indications and so forth, keeping with the capabilities of the violin.
