THE VIOLIN AND ITS TECHNIQUE IN THE 18TH CENTURY

Abstract

T HE publication of the first English translation of Leopold Mozart's Violinschule in 1948 has directed attention to violin technique in the 18th century and created an auspicious occasion to review the entire subject. The most direct access to information of this sort is through the violin methods of the time. Although the music of the period often reflects more advanced practices than the methods, the printed notes of the scores merely furnish the skeleton of that music. The clue to the music's true physiognomy, which is revealed largely through the details of performance, lies concealed in the methods. The information gleaned from violin methods' has been amplified and checked by some music,2 by experi-

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