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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1A STUDY ON VIOLIN PLAYING
3The pupil, before starting with the higher positions, should have some knowledge of all major and minor scales, of the trill, turn and embellishments in this line, of staccato bowing, easy double-stops, and chromatic scales.
5The writer of this article has published a violin-method which clearly illustrates the above mentioned points, including the different keys of the scales that follow each other in systematic development. The student of this little work can not very well help getting a pretty clear insight into the mechanism of violin-playing, which may considerably benefit him when confronting higher positions with their auxiliary pieces.
7SECOND GRADE.
9Let us consider now the higher positions and the pieces which require a greater efficiency than those before mentioned. For a study work I earnestly recommend the Second Book of David's Violin School, which gives numerous practical samples of the technical development and always in a systematic and thoroughly progressive way. This work will be to the student a true and inspiring adviser.
11It happens not infrequently that in the study of the higher positions (from second to seventh) the pupil starts with third and only later becomes acquainted with the second position. This method, as well as the custom of picking out exercises in study works entirely at random and skipping to more difficult numbers, is wrong.
13True enough, exercises in study works do not always follow each other according to their degree of difficulty, so for instance, easy ones may follow right after difficult ones, and vice versa. In such cases, single exceptions may be admissible and perhaps even advisable, but the principle, that a pupil should start with a new work, only when he is ripe and properly prepared for it, should be upheld.
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