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Scan 162
Musical instruments, 1925
12 lines. Read by computer on 21 September 2026. Printed page 148. See the scan on archive.org.
1tones possible without "shifting" the hand. This can be effected by repeating a given tone by means of the bow, or by playing tones that surround it. (See No. 39 at k).
3Tannhäuser Overture
4Allegro
5WAGNER
7Semiramide Overture
8Allegro
9ROSSINI
11The chords of four tones at a can readily be broken up into figures like those at b and c. The simple arpeggio at d becomes intensified by the reiteration of its constituent tones as at e. When the Tannhäuser Overture first appeared, many performers complained of the difficulty of the Violin figures that accompany the final appearance of the Pilgrims' Chorus. But when they realized that the measures at f were only the scale passages at g amplified, and were strictly in the spirit of the instrument (violinmässig) this finale seemed less appalling.
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