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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1CHAPTER III.
3SCALES.
5I THINK that I am on the whole correct when I say that the practice of scales is very much neglected and even forgotten by some. This matter deserves my consideration for a short time.
7This neglect arises from various and obvious reasons. The attention of writers on violin playing has never been directed enough on this subject. They have chiefly confined themselves to facts on matters which teachers only can properly impart by practical illustrations. I do not attach blame to any one individual. It has become a fashion of late to write paragraphs in strings or series of detached propositions, without subjoining a continued argument or regular dissertation to any of them. From the imperfections of our nature we are always liable to pervert some things in one way or another; to go to this or that extreme; to confine our attention too much to particulars, for which we may happen to have a strong predilection. Some acknowledge nothing but classical playing, and others only technique and brilliant playing. These are the antipodes to each other. An impartial person will readily discover the error of both sides, and he will justly conclude that tone and interpretation are not the only things in violin playing, for there must be execution; and execution is not the only thing, for there must be tone and intelligence. Scales have a real
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