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How is con oggetto di legno played?
Use the wooden object named in the legend or agreed with the performer, and apply the separately notated action—such as striking, tapping, scraping, sliding or damping—to the specified part of the instrument. A stick shaft, dowel, block or other bare wood can give a dry, hard and clearly articulated attack with stronger upper partials than a padded mallet, but size, shape, weight and contact area change the result. Do not infer that every wooden object is safe on every drum, cymbal, bar, string or instrument body; confirm the object, contact point and maximum force with the player.
How does con oggetto di legno sound?
A dry, hard, woody knock with a sharp attack and bright, brittle overtones.
In context
Con oggetto di legno means with a wooden object. It selects implement material but does not by itself determine the object’s dimensions, the action, the contact point, dynamics or permission to touch a vulnerable surface. Its dry woody bite is related in material to col legno, but it is not automatically a bowed-string instruction. Con ogg. di legno lacked three direct expansions of the exact phrase and remains written out.
Music theory and score context
See also
- Percussion mallet (Wikipedia)
- Glossary of musical terminology — col legno (Wikipedia)
- Mallet (keyboard) percussion (Wikipedia)
- Kurt Stone — Music Notation in the Twentieth Century
- Yamaha Music Educators — Deconstructing Mallets
- The Orchestra: A User’s Manual — Percussion Beaters Catalogue
- Harp Notation Manual — Slide