Book description
Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades of
experience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie
offers a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn about
17th-18th-and early 19th-century violin technique and style. While
much of the work focuses on the technical aspects of playing the
pre-chinrest violin, these approaches are also applicable to the
viola, and in many ways to the modern violin. Before the Chinrest
includes illustrated sections on right- and left-hand technique,
aspects of interpretation during the Baroque, Classical, and
early-Romantic eras, and a section on developing proper intonation.
"Useful and elegantly written, Stanley Ritchie's book will be
a most valuable resource to accomplished modern violinists wishing to
learn to play the baroque violin." -Marc Destrubé, violinist
Stanley Ritchie is an internationally recognized violinist,
teacher, and recording artist. He is a professor at the Jacobs School
of Music at Indiana University Bloomington and the 2009 recipient of
the Howard Mayer Brown Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of
Early Music.
