Scan 35
Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
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1energetic theme of four measures, after which there is a change of mood, and the animated beginning is succeeded by a sorrow-freighted melody:
3These contrasts are repeated throughout the first movement, and the student should pay special attention to this alternation of mood to bring out the "light" and "dark" colors in their respective places. Here the first condition essential to proper interpretation, aside from musical sensibility, is an exact observation of the dynamic and other signs prescribed. With regard to the second movement, the "Andante Cantabile," its beauty is decidedly enhanced if it be played con sordino. The third movement is an Allegretto Giocoso. A happy development in the invention of the First Theme of this last movement is the change from minor to major and vice versa in the initial measures and, later, at the beginning of the second section. The Cadenza:
5should be taken very rhythmically, and without any change of tempo, and I would advise the student to play the concluding passage (changed as follows):
7in the manner above indicated—not Spiccato!—and with marked accentuation of the two chords.
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