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A comparitive study of the development of the left hand technic of the violin, 1913
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1string, or it would entirely lose its character.
3Scena Cantate Concerto
4Spohr
6Kreutzer Sonata
7Beethoven
9In other instances the meaning of a passage is made intelligible only by its being played in the proper position.
11In the following passage from Bach's Preludium in E the whole lower part is played entirely on the second string in the higher positions, otherwise the necessary contrast to the pedal note E, which is strongly given by the open string, cannot be properly marked.
13Bach's Preludium in E.
14Bars 13 and 14
16A complete command of the finger-board in all positions is one of the chief technical requirements of the art of Violin playing and the choice of position on which a truly musical, tasteful and characteristic rendering of every composition depends, is one of the main tests of a violinist's taste and judgment.
18The early violinists, because of the simple vocal character of the music, did not have much occasion to use the shift. Tartini, of the beginning of the seventeenth century, did not exceed the third position; Geminian, of the latter part of the seventeenth and early
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