JAVS Fall 1991

No. 20 Dedication: Alice Merckel, Prix d'Excellence du Conservatoire (1920)

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-four sharps and fifth position

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- sections of chromatic triplets; rapid tempo

·practice Primrose)s "rule of 60" (see Appendix B)

- broken sixths and sevenths

- high E in treble starting a descending chromatic scale in triplets -triple stop passage with high treble F being the highest note

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·use either broken chords or all three notes played Simultaneously ·practice using open strings

Appendix A - Musical Samples

1. Broken Double Stops Exercise

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2. Double or triple stop down bow with three slurred sixteenths up bow (from etude No.5)

3. Three-note groups slurred in groups of two with an accent on everyother group of two (from etude No.7) > ------ >-

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