Cello: A guide to extended techniques — Dylan Messina
“My intent in creating this project was to provide composers of today with a new resource; a technical yet pragmatic guide to writing with extended techniques on the cello. The cello has a wondrously broad spectrum of sonic possibility, yet must be approached in a different way than other string instruments, owing to its construction, playing orientation, and physical mass.”
Cello: Basic Principles of Cello Technique — Jamie Fiste
“This article is designed as a starting point for cello technique. It includes broad principles that generally hold true. I am particularly interested in those principles that can release tension and help prevent overuse injuries in cellists. I believe these principles can be applied to other instruments and string pedagogy in general.”
Cello: Beginner Guide — Music & Arts
“The cello has four strings. Listed in ascending order, they are: C, G, D, A. The C is the thickest and lowest-sounding string. The A is the highest-sounding string and the thinnest.”
Cello: Brief Description — VSL
“The cello (violoncello) is the tenor and bass instrument of the violin family (violin, viola, cello). In the 19th century the cello advanced along with the violin to become the most important bowed instrument for solo works. In the 20th century cellists began to specialize more, concentrating more on solo, chamber or orchestral playing.”
Cello: Extended Techniques — Modern Cellist
A youtube channel exploring extended techniques on the cello.
Cello: Grove Music Online
“The bass instrument of the violin family. In the Hornbostel-Sachs system it is classified as a bowed lute (fiddle). The violoncello’s present name means, in Italian, a ‘small large viol’, as it employs both the superlative suffix -one, and a diminutive one, -ello. Such a bizarre name suggests that its early history is not straightforward.”
Cello: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Cello: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Cello: The Orchestra Up Close — Orchestre Métropolitain
“Much larger than its smaller cousins, the cello is played while sitting, with the body of the instrument placed between the legs of the player.”
Cello Map — Hochschule für Musik, Basel, Switzerland
“Cello Map is a practical resource for those who are interested in performing and writing contemporary music for cello.”
Contemporary Cello Technique — Alfia Nakipbekova
“During the course of the twentieth century, cello technique developed in multiple ways – from the refinement of traditional methods to the introduction of an array of extended and ‘extreme’ techniques demanded by the contemporary and new music repertoire.”
Extended Techniques for Cello — Lunanova
“There remain quite a few different strategies in notating harmonics. Perhaps the clearest is the way in which Elliott Carter writes them. He always includes three notations no matter whether writing natural harmonics or artificial. First, in the proper rhythm, he writes the pitch of the open or the stopped string. Second, he indicates in tablature the spot on the fingerboard where the node is to be lightly touched.”