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A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
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1absolute control. Great as is the temptation the student should never be permitted to use the 'vibrato' in playing scales — these are quite complicated enough and a 'vibrato' would be detrimental to the cleanness of their execution.
3None will gainsay the enormous importance of this invaluable asset, without which violin playing is lifeless and void. Moderation, however, must be the invariable rule. The 'vibrato' must correspond to the various shades of the phrase in which it is being used and thus, like the painter's brush, be capable of delineating the many hues of colour which the violinist feels to be the emotion and reflection of his innermost soul.
5PUGNANI-KREISLER, Praeludium.
7Allegro.
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11allongez.
13BACH.
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17In teaching the 'vibrato' at a very early stage (both in pieces and suitable studies) the master should pay special attention to making the student abstain from swinging fingers and arm almost incessantly, which is no longer the outcome of expression but a very bad habit, or a matter of uncontrolled nerves.
19To vibrate on the crotchet only:—
21KAYSER.
23Andante.
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