New and scientific self-instructing school for the violin

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Quickstep No. 2 The key of D flat finsihes the transposition of the flat keys. Example No. 80 If the Minor Keys The relative minor key is always found a third below or a sixth above the tonic of its relative major key. It is called relative, in consequence of the signature being the same; and has the same number of semitones, but they are differently diposed of. Example: Flowers of Michigan. No. 81

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LADY MELVILLE'S STRATHSPLY NIEL GOW STREATHEARN - A STRATHSPEY NIEL GOW GENERAL McDONALD'S STRATHESPEY NIEL GOW LORD MAUCHLINE'S REEL McLEOD

PART SECOND. When a number of notes are played with the hand remaining stationary, it is called a Position; and the sliding of the hand up and down, to play notes in different position, is called Shifting. Thus far, all the Exercises and Lessons have been in the first position. It is now time to give the scholar a knowledge of the finger-board above the position. Observe, the nearer the hand approaches the bridge, the shorter the stops are; and the fingers muse be more or less contracted, according to the position the scholar is playing in. The thumb must also, as the hand approaches the bridge, be more or less drawn from the neck of the Violin, in order to bring hand and finfers over the finger-board, especially when playing on the third or foruth string. The following example shows the manner in which the hand and fingers are placed, in seven different positions, on all four of the strings.

Examples of Different Positions. 1st Position. 2d Position. 3d Position. 4th Position. 5th Position. 6th Position. 7th Position.

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Of the different Shifts, Ascending.

The scholar will observe that, when the same finger is used twice in succession on the same string, it must slide from one degree to the other without being taken off.

EXAMPLE OF SHIFTING FROM THE FIRST POSITION TO THE SECOND &c. 1st to 2d Position. 1st to 3d Position. 1st to 4th Position. 1st to 5th Position. 1st to 6th Position. 1st to 7th Position.

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Of the different Shifts, Descending.

EXAMPLE OF SHIFTING FROM THE SECOND POSITION TO THE FIRST, &c. 2d to 1st Position. 3d to 1st Position. 4th to 1st Position. 5th to 1st Position. 6th to 1st Position. 7th to 1st Position.

It has a very good effect sometimes in a slow movement, when two or more notes occur on the same degree, to substitute one finger for the other, as in the following Example.