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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1CHAPTER XII
3TONE AND THE VARIOUS BOWINGS
5Like the human voice, the violin becomes a marvelous musical instrument when the player has learned to draw from it a tone at once mellow and powerful.
7Quality of tone is the most important point in violin playing, and on his tone depends the talent of the artist.
9Vieuxtemps, Joachim and, in our own day, Ysaÿe have marked a great advance on the older school of violin playing with regard to the tie, and to sustained notes.
11The tie or syncopation of tones or sounds consists in expressing them without noticeable change of bow. In order to do so, the notes must be given a breadth of bow which extends them beyond their actual time value.
13Sustained playing is a means by which a certain moving "roundness" of tone is secured in the interpretation of phrases expressive of emotion, by using a length of bow proportionate to the movement.
15In the following examples I shall give an illustration of the curve described by the bow in passing across the strings:
17ASCENDING
18Correct Method
19The bow is brought to the next string by an imperceptible motion.
21DESCENDING
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