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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 9

by Steve Maus

In the recent posts we used our vibrato to emphasize crescendo and decrescendo without limiting to bowing speed and bow pressure. Today we’ll see how we can apply vibrato differently. Very often we come across longer notes that can be seen as some sort of rest. Perhaps they are even written with a decrescendo. But [...]

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The Vibrato on the Violin Part 8

by Steve Maus

As I already mentioned here our vibrato must never be a matter of mere coincidence. We always have to apply it to emphasize our musical figuration, our crescendo and diminuendo, our musical intentions. What do I mean by “musical figuration”? Musical figuration related to our vibrato means that we look for notes that are more [...]

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Shifting Techniques Part 7

by Steve Maus

In Part 6 we looked upon our almost standard shift, sliding upwards on our last played finger. Obviously, as I already wrote here, there is an exception to this rule. Today we’ll apply this in our Mendelssohn Concerto. For our example I chose the second movement, measures 31 and 32. I left the original fingering [...]

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Shifting Techniques Part 6

by Steve Maus

Today we’ll have a look into the first measures of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e Minor. I took the original fingering by Igor Oistrach. Sometimes his fingering is a bit difficult to play because he had huge hands, but in this case it’s absolutely playable by people with normal sized fingers. We begin with the [...]

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