Estudio del arco del violín como una de las principales herramientas que apoyan al instrumentista en el desarrollo de su interpretación. Revisión histórica de su desarrollo morfológico y elementos técnicos relevantes.

Abstract

This work presents a development around the aspect of the importance that exists for a violin performance, to reach the possibility of having a diversity of tools that could be used by the performer to transform his execution during its preparation and presentation process, in order to obtain the musical result that he wants. Among all the variety of tools that one can find in this topic, the present work emphasizes two that are related with the bow and are considered to be between the main ones that influence the above mentioned performance process. The first one refers to a huge knowledge about the bow morphology, the development it has gone through history and an approach to the characteristic form of the bow in the different musical periods. Including some of the authors that talked about this development together with the bow constructors that have their part in this aspect. In second place, with the intention to join this study with practical elements, one has found the knowledge of bow techniques as another tool, which refers to the basic physical concepts that take part in the sound production in the instrument with the bow, and to the most representative bow strokes that have been found on the instrument study aspect.