Handbook Of Violin Playing - Online tutorial

A Tutorial For Classical Style Violin.

Also With A Guide Through Violin Literature And A Chapter On The Viola

By Prof. Carl Schroeder Published By Augener Ltd Circa 1910

About This Book

A fairly brief classical style violin tutorial tutorial with excercises. Includes scales, postitions etc.

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Handbook Of Violin Playing, Index & Page Numbers.
Deduct 100 from the numbers show to get the original page numbers from the book.

Title Page
CONTENTS
CONTENTS.
Origin of the violin The oldest violins - 0101
Development and perfecting of the violin - 0102
Prominent makers of the present day - 0103
Attempts at improving the violin - 0104
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Search for the discovery of the old Italian makers' secrets - 0106
Distinguishing features of the old Italian violins - 0107
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Imitations of old Italian violins, parts of the violin - 0110
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Function of the soundpost and bass bar Position of the bridge - 0112
Amount of pressure on the upper table, Dimensions, The wood - 0113
The varnish The strings - 0114
Strings pure in fifths The string guage - 0115
Preservation of the strings . The bow - 0116
Different parts of the bow . - 0117
Resin Violin cases - 0118
Price of violins, cases and bows Preservation of the instrument - 0119
Cleaning the hair of the bow Names of the strings, and tuning - 0120
Compass of the violin - 0121
Position of the playei Holding the violin - 0122
Position of left hand and arm - 0123
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Holding the bow Position of hand and arm, manner of holding - 0125
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Principal signs used for the left hand and for bowing - 0127
Employment of up and down bows - 0128
The first exercises - 0129
Placing the fingers - 0130
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Exercise in intervals - 0133
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Chords in arpeggio - 0135
Stretching the 4'h finger . . Various styles of bowing and - 0136
their signs - 0137
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Arpeggi - 0141
The close shake (vibrato) The open shake - 0142
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The mordent The double shake - 0144
Scale playing - 0145
Fingering of scales - 0146
Chromatic scales....... - 0147
The positions........ - 0148
Changing the position, Movement of the fingers - 0149
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Diagram showing the positions - 0151
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Double stops......... - 0153
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Chords in three parts .... - 0158
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Chords in four parts..... - 0162
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Harmonics.......... - 0164
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Pizzicato........... - 0169
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Artistic rendering, The performance, - 0172
Individuality , Phrasing. - 0173
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Pictorial representation of the bowing - 0180
The mute - 0181
The Vibrator - 0182
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Celebrated violinists of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries - 0184
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CELEBRATED VIOLIN PLAYERS.- 0193
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Violinists of the 20th century, The Viola - 0206
Translator's Appendix - 0207
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Guide through Violin literature - 0209
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Duets for 2 Violins - 0219
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Duets for Violin and Violoncello - 0226
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Pieces for Violin with piano accompaniment. - 0228
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Step VI. Very difficult. (Concertos etc.)- 0258
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String Trios - 0260
Two Violins and Violoncello - 0261
Piano, Violin, and Violoncello - 0262
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Pianoforte and Two Violins - 0265
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Pianoforte, Violin, and Viola - 0267
Music with Toy Instruments - 0268
Violins, Viola and Violoncello. - 0269
Page - 0270
Piano Quartets - 0271
String Quintets - 0272
Violins, Viola (Tenor), Violoncello, and Bass - 0273
Pianoforte Quintets - 0274
Sextets - 0275
Old Chamber Music - 0276
Old Chamber Music- 0277
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GUIDE THROUGH VIOLA LITERATURE - 0279
Page - 0280
Pieces for Viola and Piano - 0281
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Duets for Violin and Viola - 0285
Page - 0286
GUIDE THROUGH VIOLIN LITERATURE - 0287
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