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tonguing

a technique of articulating notes on a wind instrument
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The swing-style setting of "Deck the Halls" features b " s and c " ' s and some more rigorous technical demands (double-tonguing may be necessary), whereas the simple setting of "Silent Night" (featuring a muted horn part), relies upon the player to shape the melody with little alteration to the original tune outside of rhythm and brief ornamentation.
Her, and the orchestra's approach, to the Trumpet Concerto of Haydn was equally robust, if somewhat marred by a first movement cadenza of double-tonguing and chromatic excursions that banished all notions of period awareness.
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