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What is a bow lift in music?
Bow lift The sign for a bow lift is: and indicates the string player should lift their bow, and return it to its starting point. Bravura Play brilliantly with boldness and spirit. The term bravura is sometimes used in passages where virtuosic skill is required of the performer.
What is the symbol for a down bow?
noun Music. (in bowing on a stringed instrument) a stroke bringing the tip of the bow toward the strings, indicated in scores by the symbol (opposed to up-bow).
What are bowings?
noun. the act or art of playing a stringed instrument with a bow. the individual way of using the bow in playing a stringed instrument, including the way in which the musician approaches the music emotionally, the articulation of individual notes, and the manner in which the notes of a passage are grouped together.
