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music-glossary: scordatura

 
 1.261 scordatura
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 ES: encordado, I: scordatura, F: à cordes ravallées, D: Skordatur, NL:
 ?, DK: ?, S: ?, FI: epätavallinen viritys.
 
    [Italian: _scordare_, ‘to mistune’] Unconventional tuning of stringed
 instruments, particularly lutes or violins.  Used to:
 
    • facilitate pitch combinations that would otherwise be difficult or
      impossible
 
    • alter the characteristic timbre of the instrument, for example, to
      increase brilliance
 
    • reinforce certain sonorities or tonalities by making them available
      on open strings
 
    • imitate other instruments
 
    • etc.
 
    Tunings that could be called SCORDATURA first appeared early in the
 16th Century and became commonplace in the 17th.
 
 
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    No cross-references.
 

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