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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Violinists"”.
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Early Recorded Violinists
The thesis 'Early Recorded Violinists' investigates 13 violinists, starting from Joseph Joachim as the earliest born violinist to have made gramophone recordings, to Mischa Elman. In the first chapter I examine and analyse the recordings of Joachim. In the next chapter I investigate Hugo Heermann's …
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A Beginning Teacher's Guide to Beginner Violinists
… setting of goals and objectives.</p> <p>Beginner violinists may vary from a four-year-old with highly involved parents, to a professional trumpet player who wants to expand their musical experiences, to an elderly woman who always wanted to learn the violin. Students vary in personality, learning …
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Maud Powell, Marie Hall and Alma Moodie: A gendered re-evaluation of three violinists
… identity influenced how pioneer female violinists are seen in the history of the violin. In particular, this thesis investigates the lives and careers of the American Maud Powell, Australianborn Alma Moodie and Briton Marie Hall in order to establish their role in promoting …
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A NIRS Study of Violinists and Pianists Employing Motor and Music Imageries to Assess Neural Differences in Music Perception
… to a near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) device, violinists and pianists of diverse experience levels viewed a series of performance videos (piano, violin) and performed associated imagery tasks. It was hypothesized that musicians will show diverse levels of brain activity in the motor areas …
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A methodology of study for Samuel Barber's Concerto for violin and orchestra op. 14.
… the methodology was a survey of exceptional violinists and pedagogues. Twenty-six professional violinists responded to a survey that asked their suggestions for preparing and performing five specific excerpts from the Concerto. The compilation of the responses provides an invaluable guide for …
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3D movement and muscle activity patterns in a violin bowing task
Objective: Overuse injuries in violinists are a problem that has been primarily analyzed through the use of questionnaires. Simultaneous 3D motion analysis and EMG to measure muscle activity has been suggested as a quantitative technique to explore this problem by identifying movement patterns and …
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A practical guide to twentieth-century violin etudes with performance and theoretical analysis
… partial catalog of what is readily available to violinists for studies relating to twentieth-century repertoire. More studies in this area exist throughout the world, so those presented here are intended merely as a starting point. The document also contains factual information about the studies, …
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Selected Violin Works of Alan Scott ‘Vaness’ Chakmakjian Hovhaness: Two New Performance Editions with Historical Discussion, Compositional Style Overviews, and Pedagogical Considerations
… new editions created for this document supply violinists with usable performance copies, greatly increasing the likelihood of their future performance. In addition, historical discussion, compositional style overviews, and pedagogical considerations are presented for these pieces. Finally, a …
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Das Freispiel : onderzoek naar de viooltechniek in de negentiende, toegepast op het Duitse repertoire
… practice. These scores, as annotated by violinists, are valuable historical resources that contain a wealth of information regarding performance practice of the period. Also investigated is the question of whether it is possible to delineate a genuine German violin school and, if so, how …
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Making the switch: a physiological guide to mapping the transition from violin to viola
This document provides violinists with a systematic approach for a successful transition to playing the viola. The work is based on a study of intramuscular and musculoskeletal workings of the body. Because musicians are considered by many to be "small-muscle athletes," information taken from …
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Salvatore Sciarrino's <i>Sei Capricci</i> for Solo Violin: Analysis and Performance Guide
… or indirect quotes.</p> <p>This study will help violinists approach the score of <em>Sei Capricci</em> by illuminating formal structures, fingering patterns, and repeated motives throughout each caprice. A side- by- side comparison of musical figures from Sciarrino’s <em>Sei Capricci</em> and …
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Continuity and Change in Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas, Op. 27, for Solo Violin
… adopted into the standard repertoire of violinists. Ysaÿe saw them as containing his legacy to future generations of violinists and composers and also as a statement of his aesthetic identity. However, not much research has been done on the aesthetics reflected in them. Yet, a greater …
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Violin Performance Practice and Ethnicity in Saraguro, Ecuador
… of performance practice among Saraguro violinists to analyze this phenomenon. To point to the differentiation of ethnic consciousness, I focus on the import of the contrast between older Saraguros who play the violin while sitting, and the younger ones who play standing up.
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Performing with a Personal Musical Identity: An Examination of Musicians' Distinctive Personalities in Performances of Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
… to this day. In this thesis, I analyze how violinists can make interpretative decisions in the S&Ps based on their own identifiable musical personality. In highlighting the vast musical possibilities featured in a variety of S&P interpretations, I hope that the violinist reader will be …
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A structured comparison between the Suzuki and Colourstrings violin methods with critical reference to the teaching of notation reading skills
… teaching of notation reading skills to beginner violinists. A thorough literature review on the introduction of notation reading skills to the beginner violinist, as well as the Suzuki and Colourstrings violin methods in general was conducted. The biographies of the founders and a brief history …
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Investigating Forearm Muscle Activity Across Violin String Heights
… hand position place greater physical demands on violinists, which may in turn contribute to injury risk.
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The physiological learning process underlying the development of left-hand technique in violinsts
… of technical aspects of the left hand in violinists. This study endeavours to highlight the role and importance of physiological aspects in the development and transition of the violinist from a """"machine for playing the violin"""" to that of a """"machine for making music"""".
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Korean Violinist Min Kim: His Devotion to and Achievements in Chamber Music
… Kim (1942-) is one of the most influential violinists in Korea, and he is considered to be the leader of the fourth generation of great violinists in the country. After studying at Seoul National University, he went to Germany to study as a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, …
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Chord Conundrum: Examining the Performance Practice of Polyphonic Figures in J.S. Bach's Solo Violin Works
… of the era have faded with the passing of time. Violinists today consistently struggle with studying and performing a set of works from the musical period referred to by scholars as the Baroque era (1600-1750), the Sonatas and Partitas for Violin without Bass accompaniment, composed by Johann …
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Structure and technique of the variation genre in selected violin sonatas of Corelli, Locatelli and Tartini
… at that time. In Italy, composers who were also violinists wrote many variations for strings from the later seventeenth to the eighteenth century. Arcangelo Corelli’s pieces are representative of variation sets, and his pupils, Pietro Antonio Locatelli and Giuseppe Tartini, also composed …
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