"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. XIV.
12MO., CLOTH, 1.00.
SELECTED VIOLIN SOLOS,
AND HOW TO PLAY THEM,
BY BASIL ALTHAUS (_Author of "Advice to Pupils and Teachers of the Violin."_)
With 283 Musical Examples.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
SECTION I.
GRADE A.--Elementary Pieces.
GRADE B.--Easy, not exceeding First Position.
GRADE C.--Easy, using First and Third Position.
SECTION II.
GRADE D.--Moderately Difficult, not exceeding the Third Position.
GRADE E.--Moderately Difficult, as far as the Fifth Position.
GRADE F.--Difficult, especially as regards Sentiment and Expression.
SECTION III.
GRADE G.--Difficult, using all Positions.
GRADE H.--Very Difficult, including Standard Concertos and Concert Pieces.
GRADE I.--For Virtuosi.
"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. XV.
12MO., CLOTH, 1.00.
THE VIOLIN AND ITS STORY:
OR THE HISTORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE VIOLIN.
_Translated and Adapted from the German of_ HYACINTH ABELE
BY GEOFFREY ALWYN.
_WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ILl.u.s.tRATIONS._
"The school of Cremona is dealt with at great length, but in the most interesting way. Short biographical sketches are given of the great exponents of this school, which was founded by Andreas Amati. To it belonged Antonio Stradivari, who is said to be the greatest of all violin makers, and Joseph Guarnerius. The pupils of the Amati and the others mentioned are duly tabulated before the schools of Milan and Venice are discussed. Following these we have the German school, etc., etc. Part III. of the book under notice deals with the const.i.tuent parts of the violin, and there is nothing that the seeker after knowledge cannot find here, even to the number of hairs which should go to the making of a bow. Strings, bridges, sound-posts, ba.s.s-bars, nuts, pegs--indeed, everything about a violin is treated in an authoritative way. Not for a very long time have we been so interested in a book, and for that reason we wish our violin players to share that pleasure by getting a copy."--_The c.u.mnock Chronicle._
"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. XVI.
12MO., CLOTH, 2.00.
JOSEPH GUARNERIUS, HIS WORK & HIS MASTER,
BY HORACE PETHERICK
(_Of the Music Jury, International Inventions Exhibition, South Kensington, 1885; International Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1890; Expert in Law Courts, 1891; President of the Cremona Society_).
With numerous Ill.u.s.trations by the Author, 41 full-page Reproductions of Photographs,
AND
220 pages of Letterpress.
"Mr. Petherick is well known in the musical world as a violin expert with a special knowledge of the instruments made by the Cremonese master."--_Lloyds._
This is the only exhaustive work published on JOSEPH GUARNERIUS, and the Author claims to have discovered his Teacher in Andreas Gisalberti, whose name is here mentioned for the first time as a maker of renown.
NEW YORK:
CHARLES SCRIBNER"S SONS, 153-157, FIFTH AVENUE.