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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1strictly in time. The organ point should be very short. The C should be accented, as well as the second A and the second F of the measure 3.
2Measure 5 should be played in declamatory style.
3Present measures 5 and 7 with a suspicion of impatience.
4Measures 8 and 9 should be played with great calmness.
5At measure 10 a voluminous crescendo should be made.
6Measure 12 should be very broadly conceived, and measure 13 played without precipitation.
7Measures 14, 15 and 16 must be played with sublimity of expression making a slight ritardando.
8Revert to tempo at measure 17, and play the broken octaves flexibly.
9A slight ritardando should be made to the end of measure 18.
10Play measures 22 to 25 with great repose.
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13Measure 30 of period two and measure 1 of period three must be presented with a feeling of deep meditation and admiration.
14Measures 2 to 9 are presented with fervor and nobility, playing broadly, and giving all its merited importance to this superb phrase.
15At measure 9 a crescendo begins and is continued to measure 11, the decrescendo setting in at the second beat of the same measure. Emphasize the last two eighths.
16In measures 14 and 15 accent the first notes tenderly.
17Measures 16 to 25 should be played calmly and expressively, without exaggeration, but with a great feeling of amiability, charm and retrospection.
19Allegro Giocoso, Ma Non Troppo Vivace
20(♩ = 104)
22The periods omit the tuttis.
23Measures 1 to 8 should be played in a martial manner, and with great rhythmic squareness. (The tutti runs from measures 9 to 15.)
25The descending scale in measure 16 must be played with precision, with a sforzando attack, and should conclude on a mezzo forte plane in measure 17. The piano indicated does not apply.
26Measures 20 to 22 are in no wise violinistic. From measures 18 to 27 play
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