String Literature

Instructor

Craig Purdy

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Course Administration

• String Literature Syllabus-Graduate
• String Literature Syllabus-Undergraduate

Course Content-(Chapter headings/titles run concurrently with our text, "The Cambridge Companion to the Violin")

I.---The Violin and Bow-origins and development

II.---The Physics of the Violin

III---The Violinists of the Baroque and Classical Periods

IV---The Nineteenth -Century Bravura Tradition

V---The Twentieth Century

VI---The Fundamentals of Violin Playing and Teaching

VII---Technique and Performing Practice

VIII---Aspects of Contemporary Technique

IX---The Concerto

X---The Sonata

XI---Other Solo Repertory

XII---The Violin as Ensemble Instrument

XIII---The Pedagogical Literature

(XIV---Alternative Styles)