Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Scan 21

Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925

22 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.

1beauty. For instance, in the second measure after letter C:
35. p dolce etc.
5the greatest serenity and equality is demanded while playing the eight sixteenth notes, which repeat through several measures and move to the climax:
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9in a continuous piano with a preceding working-up of the tonal volume. Five measures before the end of the movement we have a similar passage which, however, ends with a piano.
11A passionate and tempestuous urgency rages throughout the entire second movement of the sonata, the Non troppo presto. Here too, in most cases, the observance of the accents which fall on the majority of the notes beginning the measure with a mordent:
137.
15and also at letter A:
178.
19is is of the greatest importance in order to bring out the special character of the music. In the places where a piano is indicated, at letter B and D, the two notes marked staccato should be played as "flying" staccati with a light bow. The concluding five measures, marked Più lento, should be taken very broadly, the trill:
219.

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