VIOLIN ARTISTS : THEIR SCHOOLS AND PEDAGOGICAL INFLUENCES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

ISBN-13: 9783639116953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 100 str.

Christian Baker

Opis

This book was written in an effort to increase§awareness among violinists of the role and importance§of violin schools in present-day performance and§pedagogy. Over time, the meaning and relevance of the§term school (as it applies to violin playing and§teaching) has become increasingly ambiguous. The§purpose of this work is three-fold: 1) to determine§the extent to which schools continue to affect§prominent violin teachers/performers in the United§States today, 2) to give an account of available§literature addressing the various schools of violin§playing, and 3) to provide a useful reference to many§of the more prominent teacher-student relationships,§the relationships of those teachers to the schools§where they were active, and some of the most§significant treatises on violin playing (see Chapter§Four: Tables). It is apparent from the interviews§that current perspectives and opinions pertaining to§the influence of schools vary quite widely, even§among renowned artists and teachers. However, one may§develop a discriminating sense of the importance of§various schools in the history of violin playing and§teaching by studying the interviews and the sources§relevant to this topic.

O autorze

Christian M. Baker, DM: Member of the Arkansas Symphony and the
Rockefeller String Quartet. Violin faculty, Hendrix College
(Conway, AR). Studied violin at Brigham Young University (BM
1998) and at Florida State University (MM 2000, DM 2005). His
most influential mentors include Nell Gotkovsky, Eliot Chapo, and
Igor Gruppman.