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Scan 156
Musical instruments, 1925
8 lines. Read by computer on 21 September 2026. Printed page 142. See the scan on archive.org.
1natural harmonics may be seen in the score of Rimsky-Korsakoff's Capriccio Espagnol.
3BOWING
5While the Orientals employ the bow in an indiscriminate see-sawing upon the strings, our European composers and performers take great pains to mark the downward and upward stroke, the former by the mark or , and the latter by the sign or . True, one concert-master carefully indicates these movements in the string parts in what he considers the most effective manner; while another takes the same parts and marks them quite otherwise, in some cases exactly the reverse of the former. A striking difference between these two methods of producing the tone in respect to quality and volume is sometimes manifest. I once had occasion to observe this while rehearsing the Finale of the Tchaïkovsky E Minor Symphony. On first reading the Allegro theme the string group played it with alternate strokes as at a.
7I then asked the players to observe the composer's bow marks, as at b, and the result was about double
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