JAVS Fall 1991

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.(see Etude No.6)

• string crossings in high positions

Moderato (same difficulties as first moderato) • quasi--cadenza run on one bow

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No.9 Dedication:

Louis Artieres, Premier Prix du Conservatoire (1920), de la Boston Symphony

Possible Approaches

Technical Aspects

• trills on sixteenth notes; first note in four note group or second note in four note group

• first, play without the trills • then, practice trills separately; the trill should be light in execution, the fingers having a feeling of relaxed articulation, and the trilling finger should be kept close to the string • finally, play section as written

·practice Ysaye round bowing exercise (see Appendix C)

• arpeggios

.frequent accidentals

No. 10 Dedication: Mme. Crunelle--Martinet, Premier Prix du Conservatoire (1923), des Concerts Pasdeloup

Possible Approaches

Technical Aspects

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·six flats (aargh!) with many accidentals added

.practice scales in the same key

• rapid tempo

• Primrose 60 (see Appendix B)

• half--posi tion passages

• second position double stop passages

• use broken stops exercise (see Appendix A, # 1)