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The modes de jeu (modes of playing) are specific
musical techniques developed to enrich the timbre capabilities of musical instruments.
[1] Used in
contemporary classical music, the first composers to have used them as such are certainly
Béla Bartók (Pizz Bartok, Jeux ponticello de cordes),
Richard Strauss, who asked the horn player to sing in his instrument (
Ein Heldenleben, 1899),
Henry Cowell and his
clusters (1911), and
Edgar Varèse, who in
Density 21.5 (1936) ordered the flutist to hit the keys.
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The modes de jeu (modes of playing) are specific
musical techniques developed to enrich the timbre capabilities of musical instruments.
[1] Used in
contemporary classical music, the first composers to have used them as such are certainly
Béla Bartók (Pizz Bartok, Jeux ponticello de cordes),
Richard Strauss, who asked the horn player to sing in his instrument (
Ein Heldenleben, 1899),
Henry Cowell and his
clusters (1911), and
Edgar Varèse, who in
Density 21.5 (1936) ordered the flutist to hit the keys.