Scan 147
Voice and violin : sketches, anecdotes, and reminiscences, 1898
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1octaves is Kreutzer's study No. 23. The middle fingers should always be kept down in performing octaves, so that you have three fingers down on the higher string, and one finger on the lower, and the latter is the note which, with most players, guides the ear, or, rather, that the ear guides.
3Passages of tenths are not common in violin music, and when they are met with, as in De Bériot's Second Concerto and Ninth Air Varié, Paganini's Rondo de la Clochette, &c., it is rare, indeed, that they are ever played in tune throughout. Some violinists transpose them to thirds, but the effect is not so brilliant.
5Octaves, thirds, and sixths are doubtless great beauties in violin-playing, and should be diligently practised as early as possible by young violinists. Some composers display much greater talent than others in writing effectively such passages as I allude to, and too much attention cannot be given in this respect to the choice of a piece of music which it is intended to perform in public.
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