Despite the many innovative contributions made toward the improvement of violin playing and teaching in the twentieth century, there is an abundance of pedagogy and musical literature which continues to propagate "old school" thinking. Many editions of violin music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are still in print and do not present to student violinists the technical or aesthetic possibilities now considered by recognized artists. Consequently, these flawed versions of the repertoire hinder the development of aspiring violinists.Whether or not an edition is good, editorial notations reflect the violinistic idiosyncracies and peculiarities of individuals and should thus serve only as sources for reference and study. This is because the violinist's perception of and reaction to music would suffer compromise if he were to be unduly influenced by the editings of others. Therefore, it is for the good of his musical growth that he experiment with and discover which interpretive ideas and combinations of bowings and fingerings ultimately bring performances of compositions closest to his conception of them.Although numerous volumes have been written on performance techniques for violin, they usually do not address matters specifically related to deciding bowings and fingerings for given passages of music. Thus, by default, the major texts on editing music for violin might be said to be the books of Carl Flesch, Elizabeth. Green, and I. M. Yampolsky. None of these writings, though, presents both bowing and fingering in a complete and logical sequence of principles and supporting rationales. Conse4uantly, there has been a substantial need for a single volume which thoroughly covers such material in a style suitable for classroom use or for individual study.This presentation of principles for editing violin music is a comprehensive distillation, simplification, and clarification of the beliefs and concepts of others, combined-with those of the author. Systematically grouped and prefaced by rationales, the principles are enunciated in separate chapters on bowings and fingerings and are illustrated by excerpts selected from the violin literature.The author hopes that this approach to editing will facilitate the learning of good editorial practice in violin music and will challenge violinists to continuously seek better bowings and fingerings.The violinist must frequently make alterations in the printed bowing of notes to accommodate the mechanics of playing the instrument and to attain the desired nuance (subtle variation) involving tempo, rhythm, phrasing, dynamics, and tonal coloring. These changes are implemented by the transfer, deletion, or addition of slurs.Bowings considered conventional or "standard" are classified under (a) The Down-Bow Penchants dynamic, tonic, and agogic accents; resolutions; and dynamic gradations; (b) Uniformity of Articulations chords and successions of identical strokes; (c) Compensational Bowings: retaken, combined, and divided strokes; (d) Linked Bowings; for dynamic constancy and bow distribution; (e) Division of Prolonged Strokes: long slurs and long, sustained notes; (f) Oscillation between Strings; rapid alternation and slurred string crossings; (g) Pizzicatos use of the index and middle fingers and thumb."Optional" bowings, which are personal and not essential for efficient performance, are listed as (a) Phrase Accommodation, (b) Melodic Profiling by Slurring, Reslurring, or Separating, and (c) Pulse Dilution.Well chosen fingering reduces or eliminates unnecessary physical tensions, permits velocity of movement with greater accuracy, and promotes maximum expression. As with bowings, fingerings are distinguished by two types: "standard" for efficiency of mechanics and "optional" for personal expression.Principles of standard fingering are grouped in the following sections: (a) Positions, (b) Chromatic Passages, (c) Interval Congruity, (d) Determining Which Positions to Use, (e) Shifting: semitone, contraction, extension, open string, natural harmonic, and alternate finger shifts plus melodic fifths and reduction of shift spans or shift frequencies, (f) String Crossing, and (g) Sequential Patterns.Optional fingerings include (a) Exclusion of the Fourth Finger, (b) Regulation of Timbre, and (c) Portamento.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Rochester, 1975. / Reproduced from typescript. Four works analyzed: Capriccio, by Henk Badings.- Gargoyles, by Otto Luening.- Music plus one, by Ilhan Mimaroglu.- Quadrants: event/complex number three, by Larry Austin. "Glossary of terms": leaves 90-94. "Works for solo violin and tape": leaves 95-96. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 97-101. Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/6294

Thesis (M.S.)--Brock University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-84).

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 104). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Queensland, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Over the course of the development of the violin and viol families between the second half of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth century, players of these instruments did not conform to the existing roles for professional instrumentalists established by wind consorts and other civic musicians. In determining the early sources of professional players of bowed strings, the contexts in which choirboys and young church musicians came to study instrumental music as well as the functions of the ensembles, repertoires, and instruments illuminate the output of the subsequent generations of adult composers and professional musicians, particularly the Venetian School, the first to write idiomatic instrumental music and to specialize in instrumental composition and performance. The acceptance of bowed strings into church music contexts is reflected by the preponderance of string-playing maestri at religious institutions, most notably Marc’Antonio Ingegneri in Cremona and Claudio Monteverdi in Mantua and Venice. The ultimate indication of the presence of string instruments in the church music-educational system and thus the Church as a source of professional string players is the advent of sacred music with designated parts for strings: the stile concertato developed at San Marco and expanded by Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Grandi, and Viadana among others, along with evidence of increasing instrumental participation in the ceremonial sacred music that contributed to its development.

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The purpose of this thesis is to show through the presentation and analysis of authoritative information, and opinions drawn from the information and analysis, the development of violin technique from its basic rudiments as an accompanying instrument to the plane of a brilliant solo instrument, a position it still maintains today. This thesis aims to deal exclusively with the technical evolution of the violin. Many books on the history of the violin have been written, but none have dealt exclusively with the technical evolution of this instrument, and it is hoped that the materials in this thesis will constitute a contribution to this field.

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