Bowings

Yet this is wrong -- for the player holds his bow at the finger-tips, that terminal point of the fingers where the tactile nerves are most highly developed, and where their direct contact with the bow makes possible the greatest variety of dynamic effect, and also allows the development of far greater speed in short bowings. ❋ Frederick Herman Martens (1903)

Disinguished virtuosi, acclaimed virtuosos and virtuosas of this greatest orchestra in the world, members and memberesses of this fine ensemble, tuxedos and dressed of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, you behind me I've stooped to rehearse with for far too many seasons now and have yet to conquer, consider this your cue! to draw out the longbows: downbows for the 1st violins, upbows for the 2nds -- the bowings are as necessary as they are Schniedermann's written into your parts, yes believe it or not, in his own hand, and such hands! ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only thing you can't do, of course, is scribble your fingerings or bowings on to the page. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The only thing you can't do – yet – is scribble your fingerings or bowings on to the page. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The floor served as an extended soundboard which sent the reverberations of her bowings across the room. ❋ Celeste Winant (2007)

Therefore, he used his time on airplanes to mentally practice, going over the intricacies of a piece, imagining fingerings, bowings, phrasings--not just mechanically, but how his body would execute the performance, what he would be thinking, what he was trying to say. ❋ ScentScelf (2008)

Ms. CYNTHIA PHELPS (Principal Violist, New York Philharmonic): People don't know what bowings are, what they mean, or why are string players spent so much time on them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Think, for a moment, about this: it means that Thomson has been working with the concertmaster to determine bowings and with the librarian to mark up the scores. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2007)

We need to bring back not only frequent crossings and bowings, which are traditional part-and-parcel of Eastern and Western liturgy, but breast-beating especially. ❋ Mike L (2006)

As the man turned towards us in his bowings and bendings, Tam suddenly sprang to his feet and shouted at him a piece of schoolboy rudeness then fashionable in Kirkcaple. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But the piece came with a lot of wonderful bowings and fingerings and a lot of direction to the players, so it was very, very clear what he wanted. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As I recall, the only advantage anyone thought of was that bowings could be changed from the podium without a lick of work done by players. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had no liking for the public bowings and scrapings of Mendoza and certainly no temptation to the masonic mysticism of the atheist ❋ Unknown (2003)

As for the bowings, fasting and all the rest of it, I don't understand what they have to do with me. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What dissolution of the soul you demanded in order to get through one day, what lies, bowings, scrapings, fluency and servility! ❋ Unknown (2003)