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Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
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1and bow-inflection must be exactly carried out if the movement is to produce the proper effect.
3The Andante might be termed a "Siciliano," for it has all the melodic charm and the melancholy of mood peculiar to the old art-dance known by that name. A passage which reveals these qualities in a characteristic manner is the following one:
529. f molto espressivo
7which should be played with sorrowful expression.
9The concluding Allegro is probably the most noteworthy of the four movements. In it both composer and editor have done their best. The composer has supplied a fresh, animated theme which contains an alternating four-quarter and three-quarter rhythm that is continued through the entire composition; a procedure which was a novelty two hundred years ago, and which even now lends the piece a stamp of entire independence. The editor, as his share, has provided the spontaneous theme of the first four measures with a corresponding counterpoint in the upper voice of the piano part, which clarifies and illumines the whole in a musically most grateful manner.
11Allegro détaché
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15(5th measure)
17The movement ends with a Cadenza by the editor to whom credit is also due for having provided the whole Sonata with highly expressive and musical nuances and shadings.
19The Sonata in F minor,* the second of the Locatelli Sonatas here considered, is especially interesting because its most notable
21* Pietro Locatelli. Sonata in F minor. Revised and edited with piano accompaniment by Julius Röntgen. G. Alsbach & Co., Amsterdam.
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