On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I don't think so. My teacher used to write "Fast Bow" or "Slow Bow" where it mattered. It's much worse in German, "schneller Bogen" or "langsamer Bogen" seems to take far too much space, so I still use the English terms...
On the rare occasions where I've seen this specified (in Mahler, for example), the German expression has been "viel Bogen." Were I to want this effect, I would use the English equivalent "much bow."
Someone else mentioned "flautando," but this is not at all equivalent. Flautando specifically means to play with the edge of the bow-hair (at any speed), and is a light, airy effect. "Much bow" means almost the opposite, esthetically, since playing thus produces a particularly rich, even passionate sound.
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