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How is mit Holz played?
Use the bow’s wooden stick, then let the surrounding notation determine how. A struck col legno battuto gesture gives a dry, short, percussive result; drawn col legno tratto can sustain a brittle, rough or noise-coloured sound. Because mit Holz is elliptical, do not assume one of those actions when the score’s legend, noteheads or articulation indicates the other.
How does mit Holz sound?
Woody, dry, or noise-colored sound.
In context
Vienna Symphonic Library glosses col legno as mit Holz and immediately distinguishes striking from drawing the bow wood. Krewer’s violin study treats battuto and tratto as separate techniques, and Gerou–Lusk prints col legno among standard Italian bowing texts. Col legno or c.l. is not an abbreviation of the German words mit Holz; no stable German short form was found, and the exact execution must remain explicit.
Equivalent terms
- IT col legno
- FR avec le bois
- EN with the wood
- DA med træet