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Bowing indications

Bowing indications are created as articulations, which are described in Articulations and ornamentations.

The bowing commands, \upbow and \downbow, are used with slurs as follows:

     
     c4(\downbow d) e(\upbow f)

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and the following example shows three ways in which an open A string on a violin might be indicated:

     
     a4 \open
     a^\markup { \teeny "II" }
     a2^\markup { \small "sul A" }

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Predefined commands

\downbow, \upbow, \open.

See also

Notation Reference: Articulations and ornamentations, Slurs.

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