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Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
28 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026, twice; the two readings disagreed in places. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1long one, and unless it be played with animated and fiery expressiveness and with the most exact observance of all interpretative and dynamic indications it would weary the listener.
3The third movement, Larghetto, is an aria meant to be sung on the violin. In addition the composer has written non tardante, semplice e mezza voce. I advise every student when he reads these indications set down by the composer to turn to them in the pages of a good dictionary of musical terms in order to recall their exact meaning to memory.
5The succeeding Allegretto grazioso (Assai vivace) brings up a point for consideration in connection with the turn indicated for the second note at the beginning of the theme. This turn gives the latter a somewhat clumsy character and I believe that two grace notes, as indicated in the following illustration, would be more in keeping with the composer's intentions:
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12The movement is technically not hard to overcome; but it demands strongly developed fingers in the left hand and a light bow-stroke: a short staccato from the wrist for the two eighth-notes in the piano would be what the French express in the word picquer. The two grace notes may also be used at the letter L:
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23and at similar points. At letter N play as at the beginning of the Allegretto grazioso.
25One of the loveliest of all eighteenth century violin concertos is Pietro Nardini's Concerto in E minor* which, owing to the artistic good taste of its talented author, still graces many a concert programme of the present day. It starts with a very
27* Pietro Nardini. Concerto in E minor. Concert Arrangement by Miska Hauser. Carl Fischer, Inc., New York.
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