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Scan 132
A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
8 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 114. See the scan on archive.org.
1Whilst the first four semiquavers (Bar 2) are given out broadly the next first half bar should be accelerated (in order to relieve the sameness of the semiquavers), but is made up (quasi ritardando) in the last two beats of the same bar.
3In the above example the delicate use of 'accelerando' and 'rallentando' is quite permissible so long as the duration of the full bar, as such, has not been altered.
5Since the pianoforte accompaniment to these four bars consists only of long sustained chords and in no way interferes with the free phrasing of the violin, the performer can to a large extent please himself in the execution of the passage, treating it much in the ad libitum manner of a Cadenza, as indicated above.
7Tradition may have something to do with phrasing in the following example:—
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