Books › Violin mastery; talks with master violinists and teachers, comprising interviews with Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman, Auer, Thibaud, Heifetz, Hartmann, Maud Powell and others (1919)
Violin mastery; talks with master violinists and teachers, comprising interviews with Ysaye, Kreisler, Elman, Auer, Thibaud, Heifetz, Hartmann, Maud Powell and others
Martens, Frederick Herman, 1874-1932. New York: Frederick A. Stokes company, 1919.
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| 13 | FOREWORD | Read | |
| 15 | CONTENTS | Read | |
| 16 | Contents | Read | |
| 19 | VIOLIN MASTERY | Read | |
| 20 | and talks with him for the first time is… | Read | |
| 21 | 3 | standpoint, yet how firmly and solidly t… | Read |
| 22 | 4 | formed and influenced by the former. Man… | Read |
| 23 | 5 | violin virtuosity in the very best meani… | Read |
| 24 | 6 | more than I can recall at the moment—vio… | Read |
| 25 | 7 | His own definition of tone is worth reco… | Read |
| 26 | 8 | rhythm and poetic action the artist desi… | Read |
| 27 | 9 | "When I said that the string instruments… | Read |
| 28 | 10 | in which I believe I have embodied new t… | Read |
| 29 | 11 | violin in the generally accepted sense o… | Read |
| 30 | 12 | meister. And, finally, what I might call… | Read |
| 31 | 13 | ist's 'teens. His accomplishment then is… | Read |
| 36 | 16 | have encouraged them to develop freely i… | Read |
| 37 | 17 | alone. If I have a point to make I expla… | Read |
| 38 | 18 | Questioned as to how his various pupils… | Read |
| 40 | 20 | be able to give scholarships to the dese… | Read |
| 41 | 21 | but few great pupils, and composed but l… | Read |
| 42 | 22 | gering, nuances of expression, are more… | Read |
| 43 | 23 | nuance. You need only to take his quarte… | Read |
| 44 | 24 | believe that a musical prodigy, instead… | Read |
| 68 | 46 | PROPORTION IN PRACTICE | Read |
| 74 | 52 | TRANSCRIPTIONS | Read |
| 82 | 60 | most interesting experience. The musicia… | Read |
| 83 | 61 | by other bowings. To secure a good legat… | Read |
| 84 | 62 | spiccato, the arm may be brought into pl… | Read |
| 93 | 69 | hand, not the hand to suit the violin, h… | Read |
| 106 | 80 | when I do not play at all, and sometimes… | Read |
| 121 | 95 | heard as by the violin playing of some o… | Read |
| 187 | 153 | "Piano teachers have made greater advanc… | Read |
| 188 | 154 | player has a bad effect on violin teachi… | Read |
| 189 | 155 | not wholly intended for display are prim… | Read |
| 190 | 156 | mental thoughts of the classic and moder… | Read |
| 191 | 157 | his views regarding the moot question of… | Read |
| 192 | 158 | strings for which Stradivarius built his… | Read |
| 215 | 179 | the strings in a smooth, even way, but t… | Read |
| 216 | 180 | my idea of what violin mastery should be… | Read |
| 217 | 181 | recollection of his patting me on the sh… | Read |
| 219 | 183 | XVI | Read |
| 239 | 201 | concerto, at short notice, for the first… | Read |
| 240 | 202 | other. Ysaye with his unique personality… | Read |
| 254 | 216 | SOME PERSONAL VIEWS AND REFLECTIONS | Read |
| 309 | 263 | the concert practicing Sevčik exercises.… | Read |
| 310 | 264 | dividual, it really represents him. And… | Read |
| 311 | 265 | ical work which I must do. I find it out… | Read |
| 312 | 266 | gift of phrasing which gave a charm hard… | Read |
| 313 | 267 | STRADIVARIUS AND GUARNERIUS PLAYERS | Read |
| 321 | 275 | friends, hence they are not nearly as we… | Read |
| 331 | 283 | THE MASTER VIOLINIST AS AN EDITOR | Read |
| 335 | 287 | technic demands that the fourth finger b… | Read |
| 336 | 288 | Off-hand I might say that, perhaps, the… | Read |