Extended technique
Extended technique is the term for contemporary techniques of playing
musical instruments not traditionally employed.
Examples include added electronics, MIDI control, unusual bowinging technique, breath technique, or articulation such as multiphonics, tonguing or flutter tonguing, or continuous breathing.
Well known performers and composers who use a notable amount of extended techniques include:
Reading
- Stuart Dempster's The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms, ASIN 0520032527.
- Patricia Strange's ''The Contemporary Violin, ISBN 0520224094.
- Bertram Turetzky's The Contemporary Contrabass ASIN 0520063813.