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A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
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1A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO VIOLIN PLAYING
3CHAPTER I.
4INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
6It matters not whether the violin be called the King or Queen of instruments, there is no doubt that it is capable of expressing all the most thrilling emotions of the soul, and, in this respect is rivalled only by the human voice.
8For more than two hundred years the violin has occupied a unique position as a solo-instrument and has reigned supreme in the region of orchestral and chamber music.
10Compared with the pianoforte, it is astonishing how little has been written on the technique and study of the violin. With the exception of the famous letter of Tartini to Madame Maddalena (written in 1760), and various doctrines set down in old and new Violin-Schools, scarcely anything has appeared in book-form, and the time seems to have come to give consideration to some of the latest methods of violin playing, not only in England but in other countries as well.
12We may take it for granted that the violin is an extremely difficult instrument to master, and no matter how gifted the student may be, it will always require endless love, enthusiasm and perseverance to make satisfactory progress. Whilst the violin student needs countless hours of technical (gymnastic) training, yet the true art must come from the head and the heart, not only through the fingers, for technique is clearly only a means to an end, and that end — Music!
14The taste for all that is beautiful must be fostered from the very beginning, just as a child's character is formed from the cradle. Even if well-calculated and systematic training should not show any immediate results the pupil should not be discouraged, for once on the right track, he will ultimately find himself able to conquer in an utterly unsuspected manner difficulties and shortcomings which seemed at first almost insuperable.
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