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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1THE VIOLIN:
2SOLO PLAYING, SOLOISTS AND SOLOS.
4INTRODUCTION.
6HAVING to put before you a few observations on violin solo-playing, it is almost superfluous to engage your time in reading the language of useless apology. I might ramble on the difficulties of my subject, and also on my want of learning and competency. That my subject is difficult, and that it embraces many topics which, separately regarded, are not matters of easy discussion, will be readily admitted by every violinist who is but slightly advanced; and the one that thinks himself equal to the full development and satisfactory illustration either of the whole of it, or of many of its parts, must certainly have a lofty notion of his own powers and attainments.
8I must, however, be allowed to apologise for the immethodical way in which I have treated my subject, for the incidental passages in which I have occasionally indulged, and for the many repetitions of which I may probably be accused. With regard to my own notions (which I write without hesitation), I must declare that nothing is more distant from my mind than a wish to
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