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Essentials of music / 2 The American history and encyclopedia of music / W.L. Hubbard, ed, 1910
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1of augmented and diminished intervals in general (owing to tendency of the beginner to curtail extension and backward movement of fingers), is easily faulty. An exaggerated idea of augmentation and diminution in such intervals will therefore do no harm.
3The perception of the young student should at once be trained to realize that even while playing the open strings, or the very first scales, that tone development is possible, being merely a peculiar combination of the application of the fingers of the left hand (with a subsequent reinforcement of the vibrato), and adept bow manipulation, pulling the tone rather than pressing on the string, and that even the open strings can be made to respond in such a manner as to yield warmth of tone. This is merely a proof that right arm legato playing is really the foundation of tone and that vibrato fulfills its function when it adds only to the intensity.
5LESSON IV.
7THE SECOND AND THIRD POSITIONS AND SHIFTING.
9A correct knowledge of shifting, together with the proper application of the principles that govern good hand and finger positions, will give the student absolute command of the fingerboard.
11The left thumb is a prime factor in maintaining relaxation in the left hand, so essential to freedom of movement. Whereas a certain amount of satisfactory playing can be done in each position with more or less tenseness in the hand, such a condition prohibits a free moving from one position to another. Playing in a higher position is merely transferring the principles applied in the first position to a higher place on the fingerboard. The ability to get over the fingerboard, to go into different positions, depends on a clear understanding of shifting, or a methodical way of connecting these different planes or positions.
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