A treatise on the fundamental principles of violin playing / by Leopold Mozart ; translated by Editha Knocker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mozart, Leopold, 1719-1787.

Series:

Early music series (London, England : 1976) ; 6.

Early music series ; 6

Standardized Title:

Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Violin--Methods--Early works to 1800.

Violin.

Genre:

Methods (Music)

Physical Description:

xxxv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Summary:

Known principally as the father of Wolfgang Amadeus, Leopold Mozart was a distinguished musician in his own right. An excellent violinist and composer, his greatest contribution to music was his Treatise on Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing. Published at Ausburg in 1756 it was the major work of its time on the violin and it contains much that is of considerable interest and value to musicians today: notes on performance, practice, a glossary of technical terms and specific chapters on the playing of written and improvised embellishments, the trill, and special rhythmic figures. Copious exercises illustrate each point made in the text. A Preface--revised for this edition--offers an illuminating biographical study of Leopold both as a man and as a musician.

Notes:

Translation of: Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.

Reprint. Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Oxford University Press, 1951, c1948. With new introd.

Includes index.

ISBN:

019318513X

OCLC:

11676351