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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1CHAPTER XIV.
3CHAMBER MUSIC.—SONATAS, DUETS, STRING QUARTETS.
5YOU will want a little recreation, for the brain will not usually stand too much assiduous study. Chamber music will act as a tonic. Why not organise a string quartet? or get a pianist and 'cellist to join you in some trios. Varied forms of music are necessary to one's musical education, and of all known forms, the best, most beautiful and most enjoyable is quartet playing. I advise you to pass a good part of the week at it, if it is possible to persuade the other members to do likewise. It ought to be considered as a mere rest from arduous practice. Intercourse with different players contribute greatly to the satisfaction and improvement of violin playing. The experience is invaluable. Violinists are often barren of ideas concerning sonatas, duets, trios, and quartets, simply for want of opportunity and rehearsals. These works cannot be understood without much mental study and long preparation. A score must be procured and a knowledge of all the parts is essential for the leader. The qualifications necessary for such researches, demand a kind of education, inconsistent with mere technical knowledge. But how few are there, amongst violinists, from whom anything of this sort can be expected!
7Quartet playing is attended with a thrill of pleasure.
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