Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An alternate way of tuning a stringed instrument that varies from standard tuning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In stringed musical instruments, an intentional deviation from the usual tuning of the strings for some special effect; the altering of the proper accordatura.
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- noun cross-tuning; a system of tuning a musical instrument to pitches other than the accepted standard, for example, tuning one or more strings of a violin to pitches other than the commonly accepted GDAE.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And that's not to mention the tuning of the concertmaster's violin "scordatura," or up a tone, to create a harsh sound symbolizing the dance of Death of the second movement scherzo.
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Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning.
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Now for a bit of dark humor: In an earlier version of the piece to be performed on the MATA festival, a rather extreme scordatura in the cello is required.
NewMusicBox 2010
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Since that incident, I have modified the scordatura.
NewMusicBox 2010
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In short, my attempt at creating a simple piece resulted in a fast microtonal composition for singing violist playing scordatura while using extended vocalizations.
NewMusicBox 2010
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Timbre anyone?...and Pianos are not tuned in the same way as a guitar so it is very possible that unless the piano was only used for 1 note (the F in question) the dissonance in tunning (guitars are tuned in perfect intervals and pianos are slightly out of tune by nature), there would have been a dissonance found in some of the other notes vis a vis the imperfectly tuned piano against the guitar(s)....also there is 2. scordatura tuning which means that the "g" on the guitar could well have been retuned to an "F"
About that famous guitar chord. Ann Althouse 2008
oroboros commented on the word scordatura
Obscure usage here.
September 17, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word scordatura
Bach's fifth cello suite uses this device.
February 25, 2013