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Honeyman, Wm. C. The young violinist's tutor and duet book a collection of easy airs, operatic selections, and familiar melodies, harmonised as duets for two violins Edinburgh : Sydney, N.S.W: E. Köhler & Son ; D. Davis & Co, 1890. Web. 1 December 2023
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Honeyman, Wm. C. 1890, The young violinist's tutor and duet book a collection of easy airs, operatic selections, and familiar melodies, harmonised as duets for two violins E. Köhler & Son ; D. Davis & Co, Edinburgh : Sydney, N.S.W viewed 1 December 2023 -2847012978
Lots of great violinist have learned to play with the six volumes of the Violin Tutor books by Sándor, Pál Járdányi and Szervánszky. The learning sequence in these books is very good. There are a lot of preparational exercises and a lot of duets, so you can play together.
The Sassmannshaus Tradition, Early Start on the Cello, Vol. 3 is meant to be a supplement to volume two. The third volume is comprised primarily of duets and reinforces concepts and finger patterns learned in volume two. I like that it emphasizes half steps between the third and fourth fingers, first and second fingers, and second and third fingers. This will help the student with finger spacing issues on the cello (i.e. the different half steps feel differently in the hand). Other new concepts are introduced such as ornaments, triplets, minor keys, and half position. This volume could also be used as a stand alone book to enable a young cello student to become fluid in the first position. The duets between teacher and student also help with ensemble playing. Late Beginning Level
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A fun and imaginative activity book for all young violinists, covering all essential first symbols and concepts. With pieces to play and sing, exercises and games, it links to practical music-making, putting theory in context and building aural awareness. Quizzes and puzzles test understanding, and the book is completed with colourful illustrations and stickers.
The first clue is the number and difficulty of the works Jefferson had amassed and cataloged by 1783. These works include concertos, sonatas, operas, duets, etc., from Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Pugnani, Boccherini, and other composers. Surprisingly, there are no works by Mozart in Jefferson's library.[15] Upon close examination, we can see that many of the pieces require advanced bowings and left-hand techniques (such as double-stops, staccato, martelé, sautillé, and more). The music of Arcangelo Corelli, whose sonatas earned four entries in Jefferson's 1783 library catalog, calls for various trills, turns, arpeggios, and left-hand shifts. Still more demanding than Corelli is Geminiani, whose sonatas require "no small measure of virtuosity from the performer."[16] Because Jefferson's music catalog lists many pieces, primarily for the violin, and because even professional violinists consider many of these opuses as challenging, it seems clear that Jefferson must have been at least a very talented amateur.
How important was music to Jefferson? It was important enough for him to devote thousands of hours to the study of the violin, to insist that his daughters and granddaughters learn and practice music, to secure the Italian immigrant Francis Alberti from Williamsburg as a music tutor, and to write letters concerning musical improvement in the United States. In an epistle to Giovanni Fabbroni, a young Italian friend, Jefferson names music the "favorite passion of my soul." This statement is revealing given the famously vast scope of Jefferson's interests. In the same letter, Jefferson expresses a grave concern about the tradition of classical music in the New World; he felt that it had descended into a "state of deplorable barbarism."[21] In a much later letter to Nathaniel Burwell, discussing the education of females, Jefferson wrote that music was "invaluable," and that it "furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life."[22]
With enthusiasm I began reading this biography on Sirmen. I first came across her name while delving into Dutch music for my dissertation and through a flyer in 1995 announcing various events in Zurich in honor of her 250th anniversary. (4) In 1769 Sirmen had dedicated a private publication of six string trios to Princess Wilhelmina of Orange, who in 1766 had married the Dutch stadholder William V (56). As one of the illustrations in my dissertation I included a little-known portrait of Sirmen, published in 1776 on the frontispiece of her op. 4, Six Sonatas for Two Violins, by the Dutch publisher Burchard Hummel. (5) The frontispiece has at its center a circular frame with a portrait of an oval-faced smiling young lady holding a violin and bow in her left hand and a feather pen in her right hand, indicating both her professions. By displaying this portrait Burchard Hummel clearly sought to exploit the novelty of a woman with the double profession of violinist and composer.
The new young candidate soon proved a good choice. In 1766 her name appeared in an anonymous Venetian diary: "The figlie of the coro of the Ospedale de' Mendicanti today as usual took part in the Festa of S. Maria Maddalena. ... Sig. Maddalena Lombardini, from Verona [sic] sang the Vespers, interspersed with some motets" (23). A good description of the girls from all four ospedali entertaining the Austrian emperor dates from not long after Lombardini left the Mendicati: "What impressed Joseph II more than anything he had already seen was the sight awaiting him as he entered the grand ballroom .... There, poised and waiting to begin were one hundred figlie di coro singers and instrumentalists .... They were arranged in three balconies along one side of the hall" (21). (7) In 1767, after fourteen years at the Mendicanti, Lombardini applied for permission to leave and marry Lodovico Sirmen (1738-1812), a fellow violinist (33-39). The following year the young couple set out on their first European concert tour, giving numerous joint concerts in Paris. Joint husband-and-wife teams were not unusual in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most of these musician pairs consisted of male instrumentalists accompanying their wives, who were professional singers. An example from the Dutch Republic is the vocalist Ernestina Louisa Anderegg (ca. 1772-1810) and her husband, conductor and composer Bartholomeus Ruloffs (1741-1801). (8)
Arnold does mention the names of a few other eighteenth-century women violinists. In Paris women soloists occasionally performed at the concerts spirituels, chamber music concerts staged on religions holidays. Sirmen was preceded by Elisabeth de Haulteterre, who in 1737 performed sonatas by Leclair at a concert spirituel, and by a Miss Tasca, a fellow Venetian who in 1750 also performed at a concert spirituel (51). Charles Burney names another Tartini pupil who was trained at the Mendicanti: Antoinette Cubli (18). Later, Sirmen met Lelia Achiapati, a colleague from her ospedale days, in London (64). In Instrument und Korper, die musizierende Frau in der burgerlichen Kultur Freia Hoffmann includes other contemporary female violinists such as Susanne Janitsch-Schmidt, Caroline Bayer, and Regina Strinasacchi-Schlick, adding that in 1777 Strinasacchi-Schlick performed one of Sirmen's compositions in Frankfurt. (13) While visiting Venice in 1739, Charles de Brosses recorded that Chiaretta of the Ospedale della Pieta was the second best violinist of Italy, after Anna Maria, who equaled Tartini. (14) Professional women violinists native to the Dutch Republic seemed quite rare in the eighteenth century; Lijsbeth Smelink was a young prodigy who performed at the Arnhem Collegium in the Dutch Republic in 1757 and 1758. (15) It was not until 1846 that a certain Mina van Ollefen asked to study violin in addition to singing and piano at the Stedelijke Muziekschool in Amsterdam. She was admitted on a trial basis under the strict condition that "if taking lessons in this field by a girl should cause any disorder, she would immediately be removed." (16) (This first emancipatory attempt soon ended because she moved to The Hague.)
Granted, the Dutch-German Hummel case is confusing. By 1756 Johann Julius Hummel had established himself as a publisher in Amsterdam. Around 1760 his younger brother Burchard started his own business in The Hague. In 1774 Johann Hummel moved to Berlin, where he had opened a new branch, leaving his Amsterdam firm in the hands of his daughter Elisabeth Christina (1751-1818). (26) Lodovico Sirmen also had six trios published by J. J. Hummel in 1771. As surmised by Arnold, these publications were probably related to the Sirmens' concerts in various Dutch cities early in 1770. Publishers trusted that audiences who had heard these two excellent violinists would be eager to buy their chamber music.
Professor William F. Craig, the young prince of Negro violinists, mounted the elevated platform and waved his bow over the twenty musicians, and his enthusiastic admirers let forth a perfect storm of applause. The music was of the very best, and judging from the constant applause the musical appetites of the audience could not be easily appeased.
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