Violin Technique and Performance Practice in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

by Robin Stowell

Book Overview

This volume is one of the first to examine in detail the numerous violin treatises of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. It provides a scholarly historical and technical guide to violin pedagogical method, technique and performance practice during the most critical period in the history of the instrument. Extracts in translation from the most significant and authoritative sources are presented with introductions, commentary, illustrations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521397448
• ISBN13: 9780521397445
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"