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The violinist, 1903
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1Students' Department
3If you don't know what else to practice, just take up bowing.
5It's a safe thing, as a general rule, to give your new pupil bowing exercises, when you start out teaching.
7A swift, light stroke is better than a slow, heavy bow under nearly all circumstances, but look out for unintentional harmonics, or squeaks. Swift bowing requires tight fingering, to hold the strings down. One of our best Chicago violinists comes to grief on this rock every time he plays in public.
9Don't mistake excitement or enthusiasm for inspiration. It is not uncommon for a cold blooded performer to get excited when a thousand pairs of eyes are fixed upon him. He would only know of their presence in a vague sort of way if he really felt the music pouring through him. If he could "put a little blood in his tone" we might truly say that there was some approach of feeling in his performance, and unless there be some show of feeling an artist can gain only the applause of the least appreciative portion.
11Having received a number of inquiries for the titles of good music for three and four violins, and being in an unusually accommodating frame of mind, I betook me to Mr. Vilim's studio, for the purpose of acquainting my readers with some of the ensemble pieces played by that gentleman's pupils at recitals during the past year. He has a gift for hunting up these things and the following list will save much time and be appreciated by the busy teacher, as well as by students.
13Fritz Stang, Op. 1, Fantasie. 4 violins and piano. Very easy. Good for young players.
14Saxy, Op. 23, Encore. 3 violins and piano. Easy.
15Borelli, Op. 58, Air de Ballet. 3 violins & piano. Rather easy.
16Chas. Allen, Op. 22, Scene Pittoresque. 4 violins and piano. Brilliant Plays in fifth position but not difficult.
17Chas. Allen, Op. 24, Fete Champetre. 4 violins and piano. Showy and full sounding.
18Burnett, Andante. 4 violins and piano. Requires moderate skill and technic.
19J. Dorn, Op. 2, Andante and Allegro. 4 violins. Melodious and easy. Fifth position.
20Chopin, Op. 18. 2 violins and piano. Difficult.
21I. Lachner, Op. 107, Quartet in G. 4 violins. 3rd position. Easy style.
22Spohr, Andante in G, from Duet Op 39, No, 2. Arranged for 4 violins by Hermann.
24Fitzenhagen, Op. 59, Spinnlied. 4 violins. For advanced players. Melody in first violin.
25Schumann, Manfred. Arranged by Hermann and quite difficult.
26Louis Maurer, Op. 55, 4 violins and piano: Also with orchestra. Old style. Very effective if properly played.
28A very useful, graded collection of solo pieces is being issued by the firm of Breitkopf & Hartel, New York. Half-a-dozen pieces in each of the five grades have already reached us and it is quite apparent that Wm. F. C. Schottler, teacher at Bath, England, who selected and arranged the solos in progressive order, is a man of wide acquaintance with excellent, new compositions. Hans Sitt, the noted violinist, teacher and composer, of Leipzig, has marked the fingering, bowing, and expression. Some of the pieces in the different grades are the following:
30FIRST GRADE
31J. O. Armond, Theme con Variazioni. 50 cents.
32—— Serenata and Ungarisch. 75 cents
33—— Elegy and Capriccio. 75 cents.
35SECOND GRADE
36J. Bagge, Romance. 65 cents.
37A. Becker, Adagio Religioso. 65 cents.
38E. Centola, Spanish Waltz. (Fine solo.) 75 cents.
40THIRD GRADE
41F. Hullweck, (a) Forget Me Not, (b) Contentedness. (Very good.) 65 cents.
42E. Bezcny, Bagatelle. 65 cents.
43A. Longo, Berceuse. 65 cents.
45FOURTH GRADE
46A. Becker, Adagio. 65 cents,
47O. Floersheim, Idyl. (Beautiful work.) 50 cents.
49FIFTH GRADE
50M. E. Bossi, Berceuse. 75 cents.
51F. Carri, Ave Marie after Schubert. 75 cents.
53"Fiddle D.D."
55Two young musicians were invited to the home of their pastor one thanksgiving for dinner. The reverend man was also a violin player of very considerable repute and the young musicians were anxious to hear him play. As they walked along toward the house one of them said: "How can we get him to play? I don't like to ask." "Never mind," said the other, "I will just say 'fiddle D.D.'"
57Rapp's Protection String Case
58Lined with oiled silk: Four pockets for strings
59Folds like a Pocket Book
60PRICE, 60c. This Office
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