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A comparitive study of the development of the left hand technic of the violin, 1913
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1A Comparative Study
2of the
3Development of the Left Hand Technique
4of the
5Violin.
7The elements of violin-playing and the mediaeval fiddle seem to have been in existence as early as the thirteenth century. The models we now use have scarcely changed at all since the time of Stradivari, who lived from 1680 to 1730, and his models differed from those in use a century earlier only in the design of certain details. The present day model, it seems, appeared, about the sixteenth century, concurrently with the violin players beginning to shake off the denomination of the lute. Although it is difficult to gain much idea of the way the violin was played before the end of the sixteenth century, because on the scores the instruments by which the different parts are to be played are not specified, it is obvious that the violins had merely to support and double the soprano voice. The parts must, therefore, have been extremely simple. The first music we find published without words is the Balletti of Gastoldi and Thomas Morley printed toward the end of the sixteenth century, and even these are entirely vocal in character.
9Left hand technique for the violin seems to have made almost no progress until Gabrieli took into consideration the quality of the different instruments. From then on it was generally accepted as a leading instrument of the orchestra and its technique made considerable progress.
11George Lehmann in his treatise on the art of violin play-
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