Normale

As Printed on a Score

Printed above the staff as normale or norm. at the point where a special technique ends. It cancels that technique and stays in force until the next one is marked.

Abbreviations: norm.

How Composers Use It

The plainest of the cancelling words, common in twentieth- and twenty-first-century scores where many techniques alternate. Use it to return from sul pont., sul tasto, flutter-tongue or other extended techniques. If your score already uses ord., stay with that, since mixing the words implies distinctions that do not exist.

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