The Cambridge Companion to the Violin

by Edited by Robin Stowell

• ISBN13: 9780521390330
• ISBN10: 0521390338
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-01-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Cambridge Companion to the Violin offers students, performers, and scholars a fascinating and composite survey of the history and repertory of the instrument from its origins to the present day. The volume comprises fifteen essays, written by a team of specialists, and is intended to develop the violin's historical perspective in breadth and from every relevant angle. The principal subjects discussed include the instrument's structure and development; its fundamental acoustical properties; principal exponents; technique and teaching principles; solo and ensemble repertory; pedagogical literature; traditions in folk music and jazz; and aspects of historical performing practice. The text is supported by numerous illustrations and diagrams as well as music examples, a useful appendix, glossary of technical terms, and an extensive bibliography.

Table of Contents

The violin and bow - origins and development

The physics of the violin

The violinists of the baroque and classical periods

The nineteenth century bravura tradition

The twentieth century

The fundamentals of violin playing and teaching

Technique and performing practice

Aspects of contemporary technique (with comments about Cage, Feldman, Scelsi and Babbitt)

The concerto

The sonata

Other solo repertory

The violin as ensemble instrument

The pedagogical literature

The violin - instrument of four continents

The violin in jazz

Appendix: Principal violin treatises

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