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How is mit dem Bogen played?
Play with the bow, normally using the hair unless a further instruction names the stick, pressure or contact point. The phrase often restores ordinary bowed playing after plucking, but it can also state the method directly without a preceding contrast. Its basic function overlaps with gestrichen; context, not an invented lexical distinction, determines any difference in emphasis.
How does mit dem Bogen sound?
ordinary bowed sound
In context
Vienna Symphonic Library states that changes between gestrichen/arco and gezupft/pizzicato are written in words. Gerou–Lusk uses arco to cancel pizzicato, and Helbling’s bowed-versus-plucked teaching material confirms the physical contrast. Arco is the conventional Italian direction, not a shortened spelling of mit dem Bogen, and no stable German abbreviation was identified.
Equivalent terms
- IT arco
- FR à l’archet
- EN with the bow
- EN bowed
- DA med buen