Foreword |
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Inspirational Quotes |
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Questions and Answers |
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About the Companion Website |
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Acknowledgments |
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3 | (8) |
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Choosing a Violin or Viola |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (3) |
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9 | (2) |
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Lesson 2 Holding the Violin |
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11 | (12) |
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How to Hold the Baroque Violin: A Beginner's Guide |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (2) |
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Lesson 3 The Bow, Creator of Sound |
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23 | (4) |
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23 | (4) |
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Lesson 4 First Sounds: Celebrating Our Vocal Heritage |
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27 | (9) |
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Searching for Our Vocal Roots |
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29 | (1) |
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Exploring the Rhythm of Words |
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30 | (4) |
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34 | (2) |
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Lesson 5 Copying the Human Voice: Sweelinck's Garrulous Little Swallow (1612) |
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36 | (9) |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (1) |
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Single and Double Consonants |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (1) |
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Lesson 6 Five Exercises to Help Accustom You to `Chinless' Playing |
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45 | (6) |
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Recalling These Exercises in a Performance Situation |
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49 | (2) |
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Lesson 7 More Basic Concepts and Techniques: "A Division on a Ground" by Mr Faronell, from The Division Violin, London 1684 |
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51 | (15) |
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The Importance of the Bass Line |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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The Hierarchies and the Bow Impulses |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (3) |
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58 | (2) |
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Variation 2 Good Notes and Bad Notes |
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60 | (1) |
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Variation 3 Varying the Articulation |
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61 | (5) |
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Lesson 8 Learning to Feel: Developing a Heightened Awareness of the Emotional Power of Sound and the Intervals |
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66 | (8) |
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Emotional Information: What Sound Tells Us |
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67 | (4) |
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How to Prepare: Manipulating Our Emotions |
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71 | (3) |
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Lesson 9 The Inner Life of Sound: "Messa di voce" |
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74 | (11) |
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Postscript: Additional Study Material |
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83 | (2) |
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Lesson 10 Applying the Messa di voce. Arcangelo Corelli: Adagio from Sonata, op. 5, no. 3 |
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85 | (14) |
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Dissonances and Consonances |
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86 | (2) |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (2) |
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In Praise of the Second Position |
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91 | (2) |
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Hemiolas: To Be Heard as Well as Seen? |
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93 | (1) |
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A Note on Chromatic Fingering |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (2) |
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97 | (2) |
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Lesson 11 Temperament and "Historical" Intonation: An Outline |
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99 | (9) |
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How Do We Learn "Pure" Intonation? |
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101 | (1) |
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Leopold Mozart on Overtones |
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102 | (3) |
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Peter Prelleur's Fingerboard |
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105 | (3) |
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Lesson 12 Chinless Shifting: Technique and Application |
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108 | (19) |
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Section One Toward a Methodology of Shifting |
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108 | (12) |
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Section Two Applying Pure Intonation to Geminiani's Scale Studies from His The Art of Playing the Violin (1751) |
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120 | (7) |
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Lesson 13 Bringing Fast Notes to Life: The Inequality of the Equal. Albinoni: Sonata, op. 6, no. 2, Allegro |
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127 | (12) |
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How to Play Equal Notes in a Flexible and Subtle Way |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (4) |
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132 | (1) |
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Adding Slurs: A Misdemeanor? |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (4) |
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138 | (1) |
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Lesson 14 Learning to Feel Comfortable on Cut Strings: The Bow |
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139 | (7) |
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Lesson 15 Learning to Feel Comfortable on Gut Strings: The Left Hand |
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146 | (9) |
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The Fingers: Slaves of Our Inner Voice |
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147 | (8) |
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PART TWO RE-EXAMINING THE FAMILIAR: SONATAS BY VTVALDI AND CORELLI |
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Lesson 16 The Starting-Point of Interpretation: Learning to Observe. Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata, op. 5, no. 7 |
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155 | (14) |
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Interpretation: A Question of Taste? |
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155 | (2) |
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157 | (1) |
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Instrumentation in Corelli's op. 5 Sonatas |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (1) |
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Choosing a Convincing Tempo |
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158 | (1) |
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159 | (8) |
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Afterthought: What Happens Within |
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167 | (2) |
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Lesson 17 Corelli: Sonata, op. 5, no. 7 |
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169 | (16) |
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169 | (8) |
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177 | (4) |
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181 | (4) |
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Lesson 18 Transforming Musical Decisions into Sound |
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185 | (8) |
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Lesson 19 In the Footsteps of Corelli. Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata, op. 2, no. 1, Preludio |
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193 | (9) |
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193 | (2) |
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195 | (2) |
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Shifting: How, When, and Whither? |
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197 | (1) |
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Open Strings: Use or Misuse |
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198 | (2) |
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Notes Essential and Notes Ornamental |
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200 | (2) |
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Lesson 20 In the Footsteps of Corelli. Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata, op. 2, no. 1 (Conclusion) |
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202 | (14) |
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202 | (4) |
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206 | (4) |
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210 | (6) |
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Lesson 21 Nurturing Spontaneity: Ornamentation, Module One |
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216 | (11) |
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Ornamentation: Diversion or Essence? |
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216 | (2) |
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Overcoming Our Fear of Playing the Unwritten |
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218 | (1) |
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Ornamentation and National Styles |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (2) |
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First Steps in Ornamenting: Corelli's Sarabanda |
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222 | (3) |
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Ornamenting the Second Half of the Sarabanda |
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225 | (1) |
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Corelli's Sarabanda Ornamented by Dubourg |
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225 | (2) |
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Lesson 22 Straight from the Heart: The Great Vibrato Debate |
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227 | (12) |
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237 | (2) |
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Lesson 23 Rhetoric: The Power to Persuade |
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239 | (16) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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241 | (2) |
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Rhetorical Playing versus Pure Instrumentalism |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (11) |
Bibliography |
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255 | (10) |
Index |
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