Scan 42
The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 26. See the scan on archive.org.
1Next to emphasis, the change of stroke demands attention, and the proper and graceful change of stroke is one of the most difficult and nice things to do. Many a phrase is miserably mangled by the change of stroke being made in the wrong place. Nothing in violin playing, whether lightning execution, double stopping, or harmonics, is in any way effective, unless the change of stroke is completely under control.
3It is not easy to define modulation of tone; for it is only possible to express it by words which need definition as much as the word itself. It is more easy to say what its effects and value are, than it is to say what modulation of tone is. Your mind and your conceptions are yourself, but you know comparatively little about them. To produce this modulation of tone depends on your physical nature through the agency of the bow. This does not imply any one separate thing; as tone, more or less, not only depends upon the simultaneous action of the fingers and bow, but relates to the entire manipulation of the instrument and affects everything you play. Your playing as to its vigour, consistency, brilliance, and so forth, will be proportional to the entireness and perfection of your bow-arm. All your feelings, passionate or otherwise, will be in its possession.
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