down-bow

NOUN
  1. a downward stroke from the heel to the tip of the bow
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How To Use down-bow In A Sentence

  • The process is reversed when playing a down-bow [Symbol: down-bow] harmonic. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
  • The fiddlers best qualified to speak with authority will often disagree absolutely regarding the use of a string, position, up-bow or down-bow. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
  • A quick down-bow follows with an immediate release of the string. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
  • Loeffler showed me what every good fiddler _must_ learn to do: to leap from the end of the down-bow to the up-bow and _vice versa_ and then hesitate the fraction of a moment, thus securing a smooth, clean-cut tone, without any vibration of the intermediate string. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
  • When no bowing is indicated, a phrase beginning with a weak beat commonly has an up-bow for the first tone, while one beginning on a strong beat has a down-bow; but this principle has many exceptions. Essentials in Conducting
  • The change from up-bow to down-bow and _vice versa_ should be made without a break, exclusively through skillful manipulation of the wrist. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
  • Artists of the German school are more apt to begin a phrase with a down-bow; the French start playing a good deal at the point. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
  • He starts his tremolo after a long down-bow wind-up, then seems to be going half the speed of the rest of the section. Alan Gilbert at the San Francisco Symphony
  • And the violinist should never think: 'I must play this up-bow or down-bow.' Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
  • The down-bow and up-bow should be seen and felt as almost one, unending movement.
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