The Violin Times: A Journal for Professional and Amateur Violinists and Quartet Players, Količina 9

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1901
 

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Stran 157 - That plain white-aproned man who stood at work Patient and accurate full fourscore years, Cherished his sight and touch by temperance, And since keen sense is love of perfectness Made perfect violins, the needed paths For inspiration and high mastery.
Stran 119 - TREATISE ON THE STRUCTURE AND PRESERVATION OF THE VIOLIN and all other Bow Instruments. Together with an Account of the most Celebrated Makers and of the Genuine Characteristics of their Instruments. By 'JA OTTO, with Additions by J. BISHOP.
Stran 112 - BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF FIDDLERS. Including Performers on the Violoncello and Double Bass, Past and Present. Containing a Sketch of their Artistic Career, together with Notes of their Compositions. By A. MASON CLARKE. 9 Portraits. Post 8vo, bevelled cloth, 5s.
Stran 124 - ... the air — to the devotional beauty of the movement in D major where the evening sun sets in the peaceful valley. The spirit of the master urges the instrument to incredible utterance ; at the end of the major section it sounds like an organ, and sometimes a whole band of violins might seem to be playing.
Stran 103 - A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments; together with an account of the most celebrated makers, and of the genuine characteristics of their instruments; by Jacob Augustus Otto.
Stran 71 - SKETCHES OF GREAT VIOLINISTS AND GREAT PIANISTS, Biographical and Anecdotal, with Account of the Violin and Early Violinists (Viotti, Spohr, Paganini, De Beriot, Ole Bull, Clementi, Moscheles, Schumann (Robert and Clara), Chopin, Thalberg, Gottschalk, Liszt), by GT Ferris ; Second Edition, bevelled cloth, 33.
Stran 12 - ... when the brain is winged ? Do we not know that a chord played from notes — no matter how freely — is yet never half so free as one that is played, note and fancy free ? We are all alike ; and I, though I am a German, and consequently wedded to tradition, — I, too, should be astonished, could I see the reader, actor, danseuse, produce his or her written part in public, in order to execute it with more certainty ; and yet, I, too, am like the pedant, who, seeing a virtuoso quietly continue...
Stran 80 - This popular and useful book might have been entitled " The Art of Making Arrangements for the Organ or Pianoforte from Full Orchestral and Other Scores.
Stran 125 - The instrument on which he played Was in Cremona's workshops made, By a great master of the past, Ere yet was lost the art divine; Fashioned of maple and of pine, That in Tyrolean forests vast Had rocked and wrestled with the blast: Exquisite was it in design, Perfect in each minutest part, A marvel of the lutist's art; And in its hollow chamber, thus, The maker from whose hands it came Had written his unrivalled name, — "Antonius Stradivarius.
Stran 124 - The spirit of the master urges the instrument to incredible utterances; at the end of the major section it sounds like an organ and sometimes a whole band of violins might seem to be playing. This chaconne is a triumph of spirit over matter such as even Bach never repeated in a more brilliant manner.

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