Sanat ve Tasarım Dergisi

Yazarlar: Özlem ARKAN SÜMER

Konular:Sosyal

DOI:10.20488/www-std-anadolu-edu-tr.291229

Anahtar Kelimeler:Violin training,Bow technique,Technical studies,Otakar Ševčík Op. 3,The frog of the violin bow

Özet: The violin, taking an important place in classical western music has been one of the basic instruments by the composers in solo, chamber music and orchestra pieces throughout history. All these pieces requiring instrumental competence led the music trainers be interrogator and developer in their technical and musical instructiveness. While the trainers determined the methods of training performers equipped with technical and musical knowledge, they made studies based on the permanence of knowledge. These studies were introduced into education by means of methods. Otokar Ševčík, known with his methods for violin training in the world and especially in Turkey is one of the most important trainers with the comprehensive and useful methods for technical literature. His violin repertoire consists of several methods developing and pushing the limits of right and left hand techniques starting from the beginner to advanced level. Especially his book Op. 3, 40 Variations, with its aim to develop right hand technique shows structural differences when compared to the other books of the author. Te theme and every variation in this book focuses on developing a certain bow set up. This paper shall focus on the evaluation of “Theme and 40 Variations” methods in accordance with the contributions to bow technique and limited to the studies 1, 4, 8, 13, 29, 34, and 38 which were written only for the frog of the violin bow. Moreover, this paper shall also include some suggestions for bow use like spiccato, détaché, martelé, collé, staccato and will emphasize musical constituents.

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