sulla

Qualifier to musical directives meaning "at" or "over" or "on the" or "near the". This is used in terms such as Sul Tasto - "at the fingerboard"; Sul Ponticello - "at the bridge"; sulla corda La - "on the A string"; Sul G - "on the G string"; and sulla tastiera - "at the fingerboard".

on the A string [Italian, on the A string] A directive to string musicians to perform the indicated passage on the A string. Literally sulla means "on the", corda means "string", and La is the term for "A" in the fixed Do system.

Sul D (or III, the third string on the violin), Sul A (or II, the second string on the violin) and sul E (or I, the first string on the violin) also mean to play the notes on the single string indicated.

più / (pjuː) / adverb. music (in combination) more (quickly, softly, etc): più allegro; più mosso; più lento.

The quick answer is that the same note played on the G string will be less bright than the same note played on D or A string, and when the music asks for that darker color, it asks for sul G.

violins The "sul G playing" on violins is very often used in the standard literature of famous composers and is a very typical effect.

Sulla, in full Lucius Cornelius Sulla or later Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, (born 138 bce - died 79 bce, Puteoli [Pozzuoli, near Naples, Italy]), victor in the first full-scale civil war in Roman history (88–82 bce) and subsequently dictator (82–79), who carried out notable constitutional reforms in an attempt to ...

Etymology. From Old Norse sulla (“to swill”), perhaps from Old Norse sollr, *sullr (“swill, slop for pigs”), from Proto-Germanic *swulaz (“swill”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to wash, wash down, gulp, swallow”).

Sul G (or III, the third string on the cello), Sul D (or II, the second string on the cello), and sul A (or I, the first string on the cello) also mean to play the notes on the single string indicated.

Translated as 'on the touch', the Italian term 'Sul Tasto' requires the player to make a very particular sound by playing with the bow over the end of the finger board.

quieter più p, standing for più piano and meaning "quieter". più f, standing for più forte and meaning "louder".

Poco piu . . . . . . . A little faster.