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    Maia Bang Violin Method
    Maia Bang Violin Method
    Maia Bang Violin Method
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    Maia Bang Violin Method

    By Leopold Auer

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    “Maia Bang Violin Method” is s a classic guide to playing the violin based on a method of playing created by Leopold Auer. It covers everything a violin player needs to know from the different parts of the violin to mastering more advanced techniques. Written in simple, clear language and profusely illustrated, this fantastic guide is perfect for novice or young players, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: “Elementary Rudiments”, “More Advanced Studies”, “Third and Second Positions”, “Fourth and Second Positions”, “Sixth and Seventh Positions”, “Higher art of Bowing”, and “Piano Complainants”. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of the violin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781473380752
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      Maia Bang Violin Method - Leopold Auer

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      AUTHOR’S PREFACE

      Well aware of the large number of creditable instruction books for the violin already published, I was prompted to add still another New Violin Method, which in its general basic teaching plan and pedagogic principles would differ to a very considerable extent from all existing works of similar purpose.

      My earliest musical efforts were incessantly coupled with a lively interest for that most marvelous of all instruments, the violin. In the course of time my ambitions to acquaint myself with every phase of violin playing led me to investigate and study a variety of methods and I devoted a considerable number of years to the thorough study of the German School in Leipzig, to the Belgian and French School in Paris and Geneva, and finally to the Russian School in Petrograd, where I obtained instruction from that most prominent of all modern violin pedagogues, Professor Leopold Auer, at the opportune time, when his classes at the Imperial Conservatory were attended by some of his most gifted young violin prodigies.

      The opportunities to profit through the advice of this master, the intellectual uplift gained through personal contact and the remarkable results I achieved through his entirely original teaching system, proved a revelation to me and I realized ’ere long how much in advance his teaching principles were to those of all other pedagogues with whom I had studied.

      When the great European war forced the master to leave Russia and come to the United States I embraced the opportunity to follow him as his assistant teacher; and in the course of time I developed a long-cherished idea to write and compile a Violin Method for Beginners which would present an entirely different plan of study and which, in the main, would be based upon Professor Auer’s new and unconventional teaching principles. The possibilities of providing such a method as a sure and reliable basis for future artistic results were most alluring and as a consequence my principal endeavors were directed towards producing a method in which Prof. Auer’s most important instructive principles would be introduced not only as a developing feature but so closely fitted to the exercising material as to prove of utmost benefit to the student.

      In arranging for a well-graded plan of development in this method, I followed one of my illustrious master’s most important principles—to combine purely technical with musical needs at all times—by providing a liberal, progressive amount of technical material and relieving it with melodious little pieces designed to interest the pupil and accustom his ear to pleasing and gratifying musical impressions from the very start.

      Part I includes a thorough and complete system of the necessary elementary rudiments as well as exercises and pieces in the keys of C, G, D, A and E major with their parallel minor keys. (First Position.)

      Part II presents the continuation of the elementary material, slightly more advanced exercises and pieces in the keys of F, B flat, flat, A flat and D flat major with their parallel minor keys, and a suitable and valuable ending in shape of a technical supplement consisting of Daily Exercises especially provided for this method by Professor Leopold Auer. (First Position Only.)

      Parts III, IV, V, and Supplement include the study of the higher positions and the higher Art of Bowing.

      Practical experience proves to every teacher how irksome a task it is to teach the elementary principles of violin playing, and I have long since arrived at the conclusion that in order to succeed we must present every instructive principle and every technical problem in as clear and simple a manner as possible. To this end I would advise the following procedure of practise: With exercises or pieces offering difficulties for both fingers and bow the task for mastering the technical details should be divided, owing to the fact that it is quite a difficult problem for young pupils to concentrate simultaneously upon such different work as the right and left hand are called upon to execute. In other words: the entire attention of the pupil should be concentrated at first upon the fingers of the left hand—using a separate bow for each note—and only when comparative surety in intonation and finger action have been gained should he play with the marked bowings. For instance:

      This system of practising will bring about rapid and satisfactory results and should be employed throughout the entire method.

      Before closing may I refer in brief to the responsibilities and nerve-racking duties of our violin teachers. Only through their devotion and conscientious work can we look forward to the artistic development of our future soloists, discriminating amateurs and last but not least, of those important members of symphonic organizations such as first and second violinists and viola players. The violin teacher in truth is one of the fundamental pillars of musical development and if in the presentation of this new method I have succeeded in lightening his arduous and trying duties to even a partial extent, I shall find myself amply rewarded.

      The admirable art of violin playing demands long, incessant and pains-taking application and in closing let me recall the old Latin proverb, applicable alike to violin playing as to all the remaining higher arts:

      Per aspera ad astra!

      (Through bolts and bars to the stars!)

      MAIA BANG.

      PREFACIO DE LA AUTORA

      Conocedora del gran número de libros estimables ya publicados para aprender á tocar el violín, he sido impulsada á añadir aun otro Nuevo Método para el violin, el cual en su proyecto básico de enseñar y en sus principios pedagojicos se diferencia muchisimo de los demas métodos hasta ahora publicados.

      Mis primeros esfuerzos musicales fueron incesantemente juntados con un vivo interés para el más maravilloso de los instrumentos, El Violín. En el transcurso del tiempo mi ambición de familiarizarme con el violín me condujo á investigar y á estudiar varios métodos y dediqué varios años al estudio completo de la escuela Alemana, en Leipzig, de la Belga y Francesa en Paris y Ginebra, y finalmente la Rusa en Petrogrado, en donde obtuve instrucción del más prominente de los pedagogos modernos del violín, el Profesor Leopoldo Auer, en el tiempo opportuno, cuando sus clases en el Conservatorio Imperial eran, asistidas por algunos de sus más dotados prodigios del violín.

      Las oportunidades de sacar utilidad de los consejos de este maestro, la intelectual elevación ganada por contacto personal y los notables resultados que yo logré de su original sistema de enseñanza fueron una revelación para mi y me di cuenta de cuan avanzados eran sus principios de enseñanza á los demas pedagogos con quienes habia estudiado. Cuando la gran guerra Europea forzo al maestro á abandonar Rusia y venir á los Estados Unidos, aproveché la oportunidad de seguirlo como su asistente profesor; y con el tiempo desarrollé mi tenaz idea de escribir un método de violín para principiantes que presentase un plan de estudio diferente y que fuese basado sobre los principios inconvencionales del Profesor Auer. Las posibilidades de proveer tal método como una segura y eficaz base para los futuros resultados artisticos eran de los más atractivos; y por consiguiente mis esfuerzos principales fueron dirijidos á producir un método en el cual tantes del Profesor Auer; no solamente como á facción desarrolladora sino también para facilitar al discípulo la mejor y mas beneficiosa manera de estudiar.

      Combinando gradualmente el plan de desarrollo, en este método seguí el más ilustre principio de mi maestro—combinar las necesidades tecnicas con las musicales—proveyendo una parte liberal progresiva de técnica y relevándola con pequeñas piezas melódicas que sean

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