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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1A STUDY ON VIOLIN PLAYING
3The study of exercises (études) must accompany the study of higher positions, and necessarily has to keep within the range of those positions. For this grade may be recommended:
5Fr. Hermann, Op. 29, Book 2 (Litoff Edition)
6Kayser, Op. 20, Books 2 and 3 (Hatch Edition).
7Dancla, Op. 74 (Finger Exercises), (Peters Edition).
9Also concert pieces must be included here, but only those which reach up to about the fifth position.
11The teacher, with an unbiased judgment about the accomplishments and deficiencies of his pupil, should here as well as in all the higher grades choose pieces which may promote either technic or expression and character in the student's playing. Desirable as technical accomplishments are, expression and character are just as necessary and may often be acquired only through industry and will-power.
13The teacher need not necessarily choose only good music (in the best sense) to achieve the desired results. The more careful choice begins rather with the higher grades, and even here it cannot be avoided selecting sometimes pieces whose principal value lies in their brilliancy of technic.
15It is self-understood that for our purposes only a portion of the material need be used (a suggestion which applies equally to all the following lists of compositions) or pieces of similar character and difficulties may be substituted for some of the above mentioned:
17Dancla, Op. 89 (6 little fantasies).
18Eberhard, Kobold-Taenze.
19Leonard, Op. 4.
20Leonard, Op. 33 — No. 2.
21Becker, Romance in E flat.
22Dancla, Op. 155, Op. 149, and Suite No. 3.
23Theo. Hermann, Op. 101 (5 small pieces).
24H. L. Case, "Sans Souci."
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