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Noun- A special effect in violin playing obtained by playing in rapid alternation upon open and stopped strings.

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Usage examples (4)
  • bariolage is common to Baroque violin music, where the static note is usually an open string note.
  • Westhoff was a master at handling bariolage, a technique that requires the violinist to play all four strings at once.
  • After a properly "symphonic" preparation by Sanders, Nadien makes ardent sense of Vieuxtemps delicately melodic figures and their concomitant trills and bariolage...
  • I suppose you don’t even know what bariolage is.
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