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The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1910
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1ADVANCED VIOLIN INSTRUCTION
3Although this wrist stroke or hand extension is of the utmost importance, it has been found advisable not to center the attention of the student exclusively on this feature of the bowing, but to immediately call into play the entire right-arm stroke, a series of exercises being devised which will develop the hand extension along with the free full arm stroke.
5The use of the full arm martelé stroke at this point is advisable because the necessary pause gives the student time for mental preparation; the character of the stroke forces the arm to remain in one plane; and, it forces the whole arm stroke to be exact and free. The pause before the stroke also gives time to prepare the left hand. At this point it is well to call attention to the fact that conscious mental effort must always precede the movement of the bow or the fingers and that a constant aural vision of the next tone is necessary for the prevention of faulty intonation.
7In crossing the strings from a higher to a lower level, the result of bringing the arm to the lower level by retaining the bow on the last string, is to cause the hand to assume a transitory position which must be released and a normal position assumed before actual playing is resumed.
9Exercise I. — Place the bow on the string at the point and apply as much pressure as possible with the fingers without affecting the position of the arm. Take as rapid a stroke as possible, at the end of the stroke at the frog, taking out or releasing the thumb.
11Exercise II. — Exercise I. to be repeated on the down stroke, with this difference: after the down stroke, done as rapidly as possible, the connection of the stroke being done by wrist extension, return the bow over the string, releasing the thumb as in Exercise I. This down and up stroke must be considered as one stroke, being meant to return from frog to frog as quickly as possible.
13Exercise III.—A second down stroke, or up, taking the bow from the string by means of the hand, not arm
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