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vii Contents Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction: How to Support the Pre-Chinrest Violin xv Part 1. Right-Hand Technique 1 General Observations 1 1. Tone Production 3 Basic Right-Hand Technique 3 The Importance of Arm Weight 3 The Use of Arm Weight 4 2. Bow-Strokes 6 Lifted Strokes 6 Slurred Notes 7 Retaking 8 Z-Bowing 9 Martelé and Spiccato 10 Sautillé 12 Bariolage 12 Ondeggiando 14 3. Chordal Technique 15 4. Bow Division 20 5. Swift-Bows 22 6. Combination Strokes 25 Part 2. Left-Hand Technique 27 7. Position-Changing Exercises 29 Basic Concepts 29 The Position of the Left Hand 29 The Swing 29 Shifting 30 Half-Position 34 Vibrato 34 Part 3. Interpretation 35 8. Expression 37 Affect and Rhetoric 38 The Role of Analysis 38 The Importance of the Bass-Line 39 viii The Tyranny of the Bar-Line 43 The Significance of Metre 44 Shaping Notes and Gestures 46 Beware of the Beam! 48 The Trouble with Notation 49 The Reality of Rubato 52 9. Dynamics and Nuance 54 Harmony 54 Melody 56 Figures of Musical Speech 57 Repetition 57 Sequences 57 Tessitura 57 The Question 59 The Exclamation 60 Silence 60 10. Tempo 61 Metrical Symbols 61 Harmonic Motion 62 Technical Complexity 62 Affective Words 62 Cautionary and Qualifying Words 64 Baroque Dance Movements 64 11. Ornamentation 67 Symbolic 67 The Trill Family 70 Notated Ornaments 72 Un-notated Ornaments 73 12. Baroque Clichés 76 The Classic Cadential Formula 76 Slurred Articulations 76 The Hemiola 77 Pulsations 78 Suspensions 78 Syncopations 79 Melodic Accents 80 “Down-downs” 81 The Ultimate Baroque Cliché 81 Part 4. A Technique and Intonation Practice Guide 83 13. Tuning 85 A Word about Intonation 85 Tuning 86 Difference Tones 86 Contents ix Difference Tone Exercise 88 Visualizing 89 Warm-up Exercises 89 A Shifting Exercise 92 14. Exercises Starting with the First Finger 93 Scales 93 Broken Thirds 94 Double-stopped Thirds 96 Sixths 98 Octaves 100 Fingered Octaves 104 Tenths 106 Arpeggios 112 Exercises Starting with the Third Finger 115 15. Exercises Starting on G 117 Scales 117 Broken Thirds 118 Double-stopped Thirds 119 Sixths 120 Octaves 122 Fingered Octaves 126 Tenths 128 Arpeggios 133 16. Half-Position 136 Notes 139 Index 143 Contents This page intentionally left blank ...

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