JAVS
Archives: Sample Articles from Past Issues
Book Review: A Rebecca Clarke Reader
by Dwight Pounds
Before examining the Rebecca
Clarke Reader itself, it might prove
useful to place the Anglo-American
composer, Rebecca Clarke (1886-
1979), in historical perspective.
She is a relatively new phenomenon
in the viola world as it exists
in 2006 and as such it sometimes
is difficult for us to imagine that
she was a contemporary of our
grandparents and great-grandparents.
She was six years of age when
Johannes Brahms died (1892) and
was already a mature woman of
32-33 in 1919 when she entered
her viola sonata in the Coolidge
Competition.
~more in JAVS Vol. 22 No. 2
In the Studio: Quartet Coaching Strategies
by Roger Tapping
Coaching a good chamber group is
a tremendous luxury. You can help
them to mold a piece, free of the
actual difficulties of playing it
yourself. And you can’t fail to learn
more about a piece while coaching
it - I sometimes think that one
shouldn’t get up on stage to play
any piece without first having
coached it. Here are a few thoughts
about the issues I find come up
most when coaching quartets...
~more in JAVS Vol. 21 No. 2
Developing
a Spiccato for All Occasions
by Patricia McCarty
Command
of a sparkling, clean and rhythmically steady spiccato stroke
is a crucial skill for both chamber music and orchestral playing...With
experience and intimate knowledge of the responsive qualities
of virtually every inch of the bow, a player can develop an
almost instinctive ability to choose the exact spot, amount,
and lightness or heaviness of touch, which will produce the
most appropriate natural flex and spring of the bow with minimal
physical effort...
~more
in JAVS Vol. 17 No. 3
Shostakovich's
Swansong - An Analysis of the Viola Sonata
by Donald Maurice
Was
it by chance that the last work from Dmitri Shostakovich's
pen was a work for viola and piano, or did he have some premonition
that death was imminent and choose the melancholic timbre
of the viola to express his final statement?...
~more
in JAVS Vol. 16 No. 1
The
Violin Making School of America - An Interview with Peter
Paul Prier
by David Dalton
Peter
Paul Prier discusses the founding of The Violin Making School
of America in this interview with past JAVS Editor David Dalton...
~more
in JAVS Vol. 14 No. 2
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