Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Contents

• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Fingering and notation
• Introduction
• 1. The development of the bow, the violin and its fittings
• 2. The posture of the player
• 3. Holding the violin
• 4. Holding the bow
• the fundamental bow stroke
• 5. Fundamental left-hand technique
• 6. Timbre and tone production
• 7. Double and multiple stopping
• 8. Bow strokes and their execution
• 9. Special effects
• 10. Pitch, tuning and intonation
• 11. General remarks on expression, performance and style
• 12. Phrasing and accentuation
• 13. Specific ornamentation (agrements du chant)
• 14. Improvisation
• Appendix
• Glossary of specific ornaments.