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Informationen zum Autor Stanley Ritchie is an internationally recognized violinist, teacher, and recording artist. He is a professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington and the 2009 recipient of the Howard Mayer Brown Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Early Music. Klappentext Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades ofexperience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie offers a valuableresource for anyone wishing to learn about 17th-18th-and early 19th-century violintechnique and style. While much of the work focuses on the technical aspects ofplaying the pre-chinrest violin, these approaches are also applicable to the viola, and in many ways to the modern violin. Before the Chinrest includes illustratedsections on right- and left-hand technique, aspects of interpretation during theBaroque, Classical, and early-Romantic eras, and a section on developing properintonation. Zusammenfassung Unlocking the secrets of early violin performance Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Martelé and Spiccato Sautillé 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 Clichés The classic cadential formula Slurred articulations The hemiola Pulsations Suspensions Syncopations Melodic accents "Down-downs" The ultimate Baroque cliché 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 ...
