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1899 — De Bériot Method for the Violin, Part I, edited by George Lehmann, 1899
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1GENERAL REMARKS.
3The course adopted in the first part of this method aims to neglect not one of the essential elements of violin technics. These elements are presented in brief, melodious forms, in order to disguise their dryness as much as possible and render them attractive to the pupil.
5The chief elements of violin-playing consist of the different tonalities, the various positions, the bowing, double-stopping, etc.
7I do not wish to give any one of the primary difficulties undue importance. On the contrary, I have endeavored to give them all equal prominence, utilizing only that which is indispensable to practical teaching. Thus, I have not gone beyond keys of four sharps or four flats, so that the pupil may always have at his disposal the open strings, comparison with which will be necessary to insure purity of intonation. Also, I have considered it advisable to stop at the 5th position, believing that to be quite sufficient for this first, elementary part.
9That the progress of bowing may be neither slow nor neglected through a uniformity of exercises, I have considered it advisable to vary the character of the scales, without, however, increasing the difficulty of fingering. This need not prevent the pupil from playing all the scales in whole notes whenever the teacher considers this desirable.
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