Before the Chinrest: A Violinist's Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style
- Author: Ritchie, Stanley
Before the Chinrest' is aimed at modern violinists and viola players who are 'curious to learn about technique and style as understood and practised by their seventeenth and eighteenth-century... — More…
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$42.75Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- How to Support the Pre-Chinrest Violin
- I. Right Hand Technique
- General Observations
- 1. Tone Production
- Basic Right-Hand Technique
- The Importance of Arm Weight
- The Use of Arm Weight
- 2. Bow-Strokes
- Lifted strokes
- Slurred notes
- Retaking
- Z-bowing
- Martele and Spiccato
- Sautille
- Bariolage
- Ondeggiando
- 3. Chordal Technique
- 4. Bow Division
- 5. Swift-Bows
- 6. Combination Strokes
- II. Left-Hand Technique
- 7. Position-Changing Exercises
- Some Basic Concepts
- The Position Of The Left Hand
- The Swing
- Shifting
- Half-position
- Vibrato
- III. Interpretation
- 8. Expression
- Affect and rhetoric
- The role of analysis
- The importance of the bass-line
- The tyranny of the barline
- The significance of metre
- Shaping notes and gestures
- Beware of the beam!
- The trouble with notation
- The reality of rubato
- 9. Dynamics and Nuance
- Harmony
- Melody
- Figures of musical speech
- (i) Repetition
- (ii) Sequences
- (iii) Tessitura
- (iv) The question
- (v) The exclamation
- (vi) Silence
- 10. Tempo
- Metrical symbols
- Harmonic motion
- Technical complexity
- Affective words
- Cautionary and qualifying words
- Baroque dance movements
- 11. Ornamentation
- Symbolic
- Notated ornaments
- Un-notated ornaments
- 12. Baroque Cliches
- The classic cadential formula
- Slurred articulations
- The hemiola
- Pulsations
- Suspensions
- Syncopations
- Melodic accents
- "Down-downs"
- The ultimate Baroque cliche
- IV. Technique and Practice Guide
- 13. Tuning
- A word about intonation
- Tuning
- Difference tones
- Difference tone exercise
- Visualizing
- Warm-up exercises
- A shifting exercise
- 14. Exercises Starting on First Finger
- Scales
- Broken Thirds
- Double-stopped Thirds
- Sixths
- Octaves
- Fingered Octaves
- Tenths
- Arpeggios
- 15. Exercises Starting on G
- Scales
- Broken Thirds
- Double-stopped Thirds
- Sixths
- Octaves
- Fingered Octaves
- Tenths
- Arpeggios
- 16. Half Position
- Notes
- Index
