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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1sure on the strings. This position must, of course, be regarded as purely transitory and the effect it might have on the freedom of the arm stroke must be immediately counteracted by applying those principles of the return down-stroke as explained in Exercise 2, Lesson II.
3Of course, this mode of playing chords applies only to those of distinctly harmonic character, when the voices are of equal importance, and when tonal volume is required. A different method is necessary when, in a piano or mezzo forte phrase, one of the voices of the chord is melodically important and must be especially brought out. Then, a "breaking" of the chord is not only permissible but essentially correct, and this again can only be accomplished with the bow in the normal position, the hair on the edge, not flat.
5Double Stopping.—If finger preparation, placing fingers and gauging interval positions of the fingerboard, plays an important role in general technic, or single stopping, then assuredly in double-stopping double attention should be given this mental process of gauging results before the application of the fingers to the strings.
7If the student has been careless in his intonation, it will quickly manifest itself when he takes up the study of double-stopping. Not that a different hand position or more difficult intervals make this so, but simply for the reason that the sounding of two tones simultaneously makes any deviation in pitch at once more obvious to the ear. The student will, therefore, do well to carefully re-study his hand position and to systematically acquaint himself with those double-stop positions which are most common, or rather, which form the basis of those interval combinations most commonly used.
9It has always seemed ill-advised to lay so much stress on the study of thirds, octaves and tenths, at the expense of the other intervals. Especially should the importance of fifths as a basic feature of interval study be fully recognized.
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