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A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
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1CHAPTER XV.
3SELECTION OF STUDIES AND PIECES.
5It is far from the Author's intention in this chapter to provide the reader with anything like a complete list of studies and pieces: this would be almost impossible, considering the vastness of the literature we now possess. Neither is it desirable to specify or graduate a list of violin compositions. Such catalogues already exist and it seems that their value is somewhat doubtful. À Rome comme à Rome, every person will choose what he thinks best for teaching purposes, and an ambitious master will never miss an opportunity of becoming acquainted with new and good compositions, and his pupils will fare ever so much better than those who stick solely to their stock repertoire. Every complicated phrase or passage ought to be known and studied by the teacher, as in nine cases out of ten the pupil is sure to make the same mistakes and find the same difficulties. A neat little personal experience connected with the previous remark may find room here. At a certain bar in a Dont Study not a single pupil, so far as the Author's memory serves him, had ever played the note F sharp (in the third bar of the following example,) but always rendered it F natural. This fault was unconsciously made and had been neither noticed nor corrected, but wonderful to relate, at last a student, who was certainly not considered clever, came and really played for the first time the "F sharp." So delighted was the writer at this that he was on the point of warmly congratulating that lucky pupil when the youth turned quickly and begged his pardon for having played the note wrongly! It comes about thus:—
7DONT.
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