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American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1in the higher positions, retains the same form and position as in the first three, only the thumb requiring different treatment.
3We have shown how the hand and thumb are shifted to the third, and possibly the fourth positions, as a unit, but it is necessary now, in order not to be hampered by the body of the instrument, to make a preparatory movement or transitory position of the thumb and an accompanying freeing of the hand from the neck of the violin, to permit the hand an unlimited upward movement. Just as in the first three positions, the hand and thumb retain their relative positions after fully established. In the downward movement of the hand and thumb the thumb precedes the hand as in the first three positions.
5GLISSANDO.—In the glissando, the downward motion of the hand should be steady and continuous, the thumb furnishing the motive power. At the beginning of the glissando the extension of the thumb is such as to allow the contracting of thumb and hand to cover the tones of several positions. When this distance has been fully covered the thumb again extends downward and the contraction is repeated. As few of these extensions as possible should be made and no break should occur in the continuity of the glissando as the thumb reaches down.
7FINGERING.—Scales can be played in many different varieties of tempo for different uses, and the bowing and scope of the scale must be determined by the result desired. The best books for daily practise are Schradieck's Scale and Chord Studies, including arpeggios, which are usually not given sufficient attention. The fingering of scales is determined by individual taste and idiosyncrasies.
9Fingering should be largely a matter of the repetition of motives. In any passage of any length it will be found that certain forms of fingering can be repeated again and again. This is to be preferred to constantly changing fingerings as it simplifies the passage and makes the player freer
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