Definition of the French term sur la touche in music:
- on the fingerboard (direction for string instruments to bow lightly over the fingerboard to produce a flute-like tone)
Music scores that include sur la touche:
French musical terms related to sur la touche:
- à la corde – on the string...
- à la pointe – at the tip (of the bow)
- à la pointe de l'archet – at the tip of the bow
- allonger l'archet – to lengthen the stroke of the bow
- arco de la pointe – bow with the point of the bow
- arrêter l'archet – stop the bow
- au talon – at the frog of the bow
- avec l'archet – with the bow
- avec la pointe – with the tip (of the bow)
- avec la pointe de l'archet – with the tip of the bow
- avec le bois – with the wood (strike the string with the wood of ...
- avec le bois de l'archet – with the wood of the bow (strike the string with t...
- avec le talon – with the frog of the bow
- avec tout l'archet – with the whole bow
- avec toute la longueur de l'archet – with the full length of the bow
- bariolage – bariolage (bowing technique involving rapid altern...
- beaucoup d'archet – a lot of bow (many bow changes)
- bout de l'archet – point of the bow
- coup d'archet – bow stroke
- de la pointe – from the tip (of the bow)
- de la pointe de l'archet – from the tip of the bow
- du milieu de l'archet – at the middle of the bow
- du talon – at the frog of the bow
- en jetant l'archet – literally "while throwing the bow"...
- glisser tout le long de l'archet – glide the full bow
- große Strich – full bow strokes
- jeté – thrown...
- l'archet a la corde – the bow on the string (so the notes are played leg...
- l'archet bien à la corde – the bow kept on the string (so the notes are playe...
- l'archet de toute sa longueur – the bow at its full length
- martelé – hammered, strongly accented...
- marteler – to hammer, to strongly accent...
- milieu de l'archet – middle of the bow
- notes piquées – spiccato notes (bowing technique where the bow bou...
- piqué – spiccato (bowing technique where the bow bounces l...
- pointe – point (of the bow)
- pointe d'archet – point of the bow
- poussé – up-bow (upstroke in bowing)...
- poussez – up-bow (upstroke in bowing)...
- reprendre l'archet – pick up the bow again
- ricochet – bounce, rebound...
- sautillé – hopped, skipped, springed, bounced...
- sur – on, in, by, over, upon, about
- sur le bois – with the wood (strike the string with the wood of ...
- tiré – drawn, pulled...
- tirer – to draw, to pull...
- tirez – draw, pull...
- tirez toujours – always down bow (bow stroke that starts at the hee...
- touche – fingerboard (flat neck on a stringed instrument ag...
- tout l'archet – with the full bow
- tout l'archet sur chaque note – with the full bow on every note
- très à la corde – very much on the string (the bow kept on the strin...
- vers la pointe – towards the tip (of the bow)
- vers la touche – towards the fingerboard (direction for string inst...
