Scan 52
Chats to violin students on how to study the violin, 1895
12 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 36. See the scan on archive.org.
1carefully studied—that is to say, the manner in which a passage should be phrased and executed. It is the perfect action of the bow which gives the correct impression of the feeling of the music and is as indispensable to a violinist as a light touch is to a pianist. Of course, since bows have been made pliant and have had the screw attachment for relaxing the tension of the hair, all arpeggio passages, staccato and legato notes, etc., have become considerably easier.
3How to hold the bow and the elementary hints I gave in my first "Chat," so I need not now repeat them.
5It is naturally very important in order to correctly interpret anyone's compositions, to carefully follow the bowing, if indicated. Should the composer's intention be to produce a legato passage, how out of place, and how completely it would alter the character of the music to play detached notes, and so on.
7As the bowing desired by a composer is generally clearly indicated, it is well to carefully study and follow it.
9For a further knowledge of the various kinds of bowings and examples and explanations, I can do no better than refer my readers to Spohr's Violin School (Section XI.) where all is very clearly, correctly and reliably indicated.
11Very wonderful effects are made with pizzicato notes with the left hand and bowing with the right blended. Paganini was the first to introduce this style into solo playing, as, in fact, all such mechanical and technical wonders. Although he may not absolutely have
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