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Before the Chinrest : A Violinist's Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style /

Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades of experience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie offers a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn about 17th-18th-and early 19th-century violin technique and style. While much of the work focuses on the techni...

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Main Author: Ritchie, Stanley
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades of experience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie offers a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn about 17th-18th-and early 19th-century violin technique and style. While much of the work focuses on the technical aspects of playing the pre-chinrest violin, these approaches are also applicable to the viola, and in many ways to the modern violin. Before the Chinrest includes illustrated sections on right- and left-hand technique, aspects of interpretation during the Baroque, Classical, and early-Romantic e.
Physical Description:1 online resource (168 pages): music
ISBN:9780253001115