I just got a copy of "Violin Mastery" by Frederick Martens through the Maryland inter-library loan program. It's a collection of interviews with teachers and professionals written in 1919, and there's quite a bit of applicable music talk about learning, teaching, some nuts and bolts about vibrato and balancing the volume of notes within chords and such. For example, there was a famous teacher named Leopold Auer who taught a lot of the big hotshots of the 20th Century:
quote:
"How long should the advanced pupil practice?" Professor Auer was asked.
"The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours," he replied. "Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time--I never ask more of my pupils--and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.
The whole thing is online free at www.gutenberg.org, if you need something to read:
Violin Mastery
P.S. (You can save that file straight into Microsoft Word and read it later, as it's a plain text file)[This message was edited by David Mason on 05 December 2006 at 10:51 AM.]
