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The violin : solo playing, soloists and solos, 1905
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1CHAPTER VI.
3CRITICISM.
5ALTHOUGH I recommend the study of technique, I by no means pretend to say that mere technical perfection is sufficient to form an artist. But, supposing natural genius to be favourable, much will depend upon application and study. These cannot do all that is requisite, but they do much that is of real use. They cannot, it is true, inspire genius; but they can direct and assist it. They cannot remedy want of conception; but they can assist it. They bring into view the chief things that ought to be studied and the principal faults that ought to be avoided.
7The study of technique, important in all forms and classes of violin solos, has acquired additional importance from the taste and education of the present age. It is an age wherein improvements, in every art, have been prosecuted with ardour. The public ear and mind have become refined. They will not easily bear what is slovenly and inaccurate. Every violinist must aspire to some merit in execution as well as in expression, if he would not incur the danger of being severely criticised.
9When I name criticism, prejudices may arise. As technique has been sometimes thought to signify nothing
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