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Playing technique — the physical manner of sound production. Extended Spieltechniken = extended techniques (non-standard ways of producing sound).
In contemporary scores, extended Spieltechniken include multiphonics (wind instruments producing multiple notes), prepared piano, bowing behind the bridge, and hundreds of other unconventional techniques. Always provide clear explanations in a performance note when using unusual techniques.
Helmut Lachenmann's "musique concrète instrumentale" catalogs extended Spieltechniken — scratching, breathing, scraping — as the primary sound material.
Spieltechnik is one of 1760 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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