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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
14 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 228. See the scan on archive.org.
1The shading at this point should be uniform, and the performance marked with great calm, which will give the playing of the passage a quality of repose absolutely in keeping with the phrase.
3The final measure of this period should be played with a détaché akin to a short spiccato, and the player must keep his accompaniment in mind.
5Measure 7 of this period should be played without harshness. I have often asked myself why violinists scan the first note with such roughness and harshness, as follows:
7Possibly it is with the idea in mind of recalling measure 1 of the Concerto; yet this has nothing to do with the exposition of the initial theme. Nor should the first sixteenth note be harshly struck out, since it results in a false adaptation of the rhythm.
9Measures 10, 11, 12 and 13 should be played free in time, and eloquently, while measure 13 should be vehemently expressed. Play the end of the trill at measure 15 with abandon. The period under consideration is one of the most moving in this great work; accent plays a large and extremely important part in it, and the whole question is one of making a correct use of accentuation. In measure 18, for instance, accent as follows:
11From measure 16 to measure 32, a supreme degree of serenity must be preserved; while at the same time endeavoring to extract from this sublime phrase the greatest possible degree of emotion contained in it.
13Play as though expressing a mood of gentle reproach, with a suspicion of impatience. It is quite out of the question to employ the expression marks piano here indicated. Beginning with measure 1, a slight crescendo should be made which, little by little, climaxes in a fortissimo. Hence, from measure 1 to measure 9 make a slight crescendo, then from measure 9 to measure 10 develop a formidable one, ending at measure 1 of the following tutti.
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