waarbij de speler gebruik maakt van dubbelstops

English translation: playing double stops

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Dutch term or phrase:waarbij de speler gebruik maakt van dubbelstops
English translation:playing double stops
Entered by: MoiraB

09:16 Dec 15, 2005
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Music
Dutch term or phrase: waarbij de speler gebruik maakt van dubbelstops
These are general descriptions of various African musical instruments, in this case the "kon", a two-stringed lute from West Africa. Not being particularly musical, I just wanted to check the best way to phrase this.

Bij het reciteren van hun liedteksten begeleiden deze zangers zich op de kon. De begeleiding is repetitief met gebruik van ostinatofiguren. De muziek is modaal waarbij de kon-speler gebruik maakt van dubbelstops.

Don't think there's much problem with "double stops" based on Google search (though I don't know what they are!); it's the right phrasing I'm after. Suggestion: The music is modal, with the kon musician playing in double stops. Alternatively: with the kon player using double stops (but I've already got a "use" in the previous sentence).

Any other suggestions from the more musically minded among you would be much appreciated!
MoiraB
France
Local time: 20:07
playing with double stopping
Explanation:
is a possibility

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Note added at 9 mins (2005-12-15 09:26:06 GMT)
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Definities van double stop op het Internet in het Engels:

two musical tones noted together. On the fiddle, a double stop is technically two notes created by using fingers simultaneously on two strings, but the term is sometimes used when one or both of the notes are open strings.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrgloss.html

Two strings played simultaneously on a stringed instrument.
www.laco.org/glossaryPage.html

To play two of the same note simultaneously.
www.hotdrum.org/glossary-terms/terminology-3.shtml

A double stop, in music terminology, is where a musician plays two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument, for example a violin, a viola, a cello or a guitar. In performing a double stop, two separate strings are depressed (stopped) by the fingers, and bowed or plucked simultaneously. Double stops are exclusive to stringed instruments; you cannot play a double-stop on a trumpet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_stop



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Note added at 23 mins (2005-12-15 09:39:58 GMT)
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Ignore the hotdrum definition - the two notes are not necessarily the same, and usually are not - the effect is to produce two notes in a chord.

As Harry says, you can say 'playing double stops',
or in your alternative 'the kon player double stopping' his or her instrument
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Dave Calderhead
Netherlands
Local time: 20:07
Grading comment
"playing double stops" will do nicely. Thanks to everyone for their musical insight and also to Dave for the definition of double stops. You learn something new every day... Now where did I put my double bass??? ;-)
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playing with double stopping


Explanation:
is a possibility

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Note added at 9 mins (2005-12-15 09:26:06 GMT)
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Definities van double stop op het Internet in het Engels:

two musical tones noted together. On the fiddle, a double stop is technically two notes created by using fingers simultaneously on two strings, but the term is sometimes used when one or both of the notes are open strings.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrgloss.html

Two strings played simultaneously on a stringed instrument.
www.laco.org/glossaryPage.html

To play two of the same note simultaneously.
www.hotdrum.org/glossary-terms/terminology-3.shtml

A double stop, in music terminology, is where a musician plays two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument, for example a violin, a viola, a cello or a guitar. In performing a double stop, two separate strings are depressed (stopped) by the fingers, and bowed or plucked simultaneously. Double stops are exclusive to stringed instruments; you cannot play a double-stop on a trumpet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_stop



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Note added at 23 mins (2005-12-15 09:39:58 GMT)
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Ignore the hotdrum definition - the two notes are not necessarily the same, and usually are not - the effect is to produce two notes in a chord.

As Harry says, you can say 'playing double stops',
or in your alternative 'the kon player double stopping' his or her instrument

Dave Calderhead
Netherlands
Local time: 20:07
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
"playing double stops" will do nicely. Thanks to everyone for their musical insight and also to Dave for the definition of double stops. You learn something new every day... Now where did I put my double bass??? ;-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Harry Borsje: with your additional refs. I'd phrase as: ...playing double stops
6 mins
  -> Thanks, Harry (:-{)> Good suggestion!

agree  Glenda Janssen: Playing double stops, absolutely. :) I don't think stopping would work. (I am a musician and a violinist, by the way)
22 mins
  -> Thanks, Glenda (:-{)> So is my wife - I play anglo concertina, so I can play double stops as well, as can any air/bellows-powered keyboard instrumentalist with concertina, bandoneon, accordion, melodeon, etc.

neutral  writeaway: double stopping is not a verb, it's only for string players and they use double stops. or play double stops. how this term is used is not a general free for all./am also former violinist
25 mins
  -> Disagree - usually reserved for bowed stringed instruments that generally play only one note at a time. However, it really only means playing two notes at once and can be applied to any instrument capable of it - trumpets and the wind instruments are not.

agree  Ken Cox: 'playing double stops' (from an ex-violist)'// After sitting in the closet for many years, it's now on loan to my sister (who plays and teaches).
48 mins
  -> Thanks, Kenneth (:-{)> Why don't you get the violin out again and give it an airing this weekend? Or are you too busy translating and answering KudoZ questions?// Perhaps we should organise a Powwow for musicians/ translators and have a session or two?

agree  mariette (X): playing double stops. I'm a pianist / composer...something else for a change huh..;)
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Mariette (;-{)> Seems I'm surrounded by violinists - or are some of you fiddlers too?
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