Introducing the Positions for Violin

Introducing the Positions, Volume 2, is an instructional book with standard notation, bowings, fingerings and instructional text. This book is a continuation of the course of study started in Introducing the Positions, Volume 1. Volume 2 introduces the violinist to the second, fourth, sixth and seventh positions. Together with Volume 1, these books constitute an introductory school of position playing. Also available: Introducing the Positions, Volume 1 (HL.4472550). - Publisher. Introducing the Positions, Volume 2, is a continuation of the course of study started in Introducing the Positions, Volume 1. In the latter work the third and fifth positions were taken up, and in the present work the second, fourth, sixth, seventh, and higher positions are introduced. It is true that violinists usually employ the third and fifth positions much more than any of the other higher positions; yet it also is true that they must become thoroughly acquainted with the second, fourth, sixth, and seventh positions. There are many passages in both solo and orchestral literature that can be played to a decided advantage by employing the second, fourth, or sixth positions. An untimely crossing of strings often is eliminated by using them, and again an undue amount of shifting sometimes is avoided. Furthermore, the works of various modern composers require that extensive use be made of these positions. As for the seventh position, it is used chiefly as a continuation of the shifting process in which the player goes from the first to the third position, and then from the third to the fifth position. The seventh, and even higher positions (eighth, ninth and tenth), are to be found in many passages of concertos and other virtuoso compositions, as well as in the works of advanced orchestral literature. Introducing the Positions, Volumes One and Two, constitute together, an introductory school of position playing. In the standard etudes of Kayser, Blumenstengel, Mazas, Dont, Kreutzer, Fiorillo, Rode, Leonard, Dancla, De Beriot, Rovelli and Gavinies, there are afforded many excellent opportunities for further study of the positions. - p. [1].