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Violin -- Performance

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• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Violins and Violin Makers: Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, Their Followers and Imitators, to the Present Time; With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin (London: Longman and Co.; Sheffield: J. Pearce, Jr., 1866), by Joseph Pearce (Gutenberg text)

• La Technique Superieure de l'Archet, Pour Violon (in French; Paris and New York, Salabert, 1916), by Lucien Capet, contrib. by Henry Expert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• How to Tell the Nationality of Old Violins (second and enlarged edition; 1901), by Balfour and Co. (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Lost Stradivarius, by John Meade Falkner (Gutenberg text)
• A Village Stradivarius, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Die Italienische Lira da Braccio: Eine Kunst-Historische Studie zur Geschichte der Violine (in German; Mostar: V. Radovic, 1892), by A. Hajdecki
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Violin and Its Music (London: Dulau and Co., Novell and Co., 1881), by George Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Basic Principles of Violin Playing: A Report Prepared for the MENC Committee on String Instruction in the Schools (Washington: Music Educators National Conference, c1959), by Paul Rolland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Studying R. Kreutzer's Etudes: 412 Examples, Compiled According to the Advise of the Author for Violin (in English, German, and French; New York and Boston: C. Fischer, c1898), by L. Massart, ed. by Gustav Saenger, contrib. by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (second revised edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1907), by F. A. Steinhausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1920), by F. A. Steinhausen, ed. by Arnold Schering (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Introduction to the Skill of Musick (London: John Playford, 1655), by John Playford (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Eichberg's Complete Method for the Violin (revised edition; Boston: White, Smith and Company, c1879), by Julius Eichberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advanced Exercises for the Violin (New York: G. Schirmer, c1912), by Franz Kneisel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Artist's Technique of Violin Playing: A New Scientific Method for Obtaining, in the Shortest Possible Time, an Absolute Mastery of the Higher Technical Difficulties of the Left Hand and of the Bow (with parallel texts in English, French, and German; op. 12; New York: C. Fischer, c1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale and Chord Exercises for the Violin (Boston: Boston Music Co., c1917), by Eugene W. Ritter and Albert Stoessel (page images at HathiTrust; pages may be in reverse order)
• La Technique Superieure de l'Archet, Pour Violon (in French; Paris and New York, Salabert, 1916), by Lucien Capet, contrib. by Henry Expert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Art of Studying R. Kreutzer's Etudes: 412 Examples, Compiled According to the Advise of the Author for Violin (in English, German, and French; New York and Boston: C. Fischer, c1898), by L. Massart, ed. by Gustav Saenger, contrib. by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust)

• ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios (preprint version, c2013), ed. by Katherine V. Wills and Richard Aaron Rice (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• In the Mind's Eye: Enhancing Human Performance (1991), ed. by Daniel Druckman and Robert A. Bjork (page images at NAP)
• Enhancing Human Performance: Issues, Theories, Techniques (1988), ed. by Daniel Druckman and John A. Swets (page images at NAP)
• Learning, Remembering, Believing: Enhancing Human Performance, ed. by Daniel Druckman and Robert A. Bjork (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm our Children (c2006), ed. by Eric A. Hanushek (PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Supportive School Environments for Children Traumatized by Family Violence (Boston: Massachusetts Advocates for Children, c2005), by Susan F. Cole, Jessica Greenwald O'Brien, M. Geron Gadd, Joel Ristuccia, D. Luray Wallace, and Michael Gregory (PDF files with commentary at massadvocates.org)

• A Big Apple for Educators: New York City's Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses: Final Evaluation Report (c2011), by Julie A. Marsh, Matthew G. Springer, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Kun Yuan, Scott Epstein, Julia Koppich, Nidhi Kalra, Catherine Dimartino, and Art Peng (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools (c2000), by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)
• Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs, and Cures (ILR reprints #641 (originally appeared in The Year in School Science); 1989), by John H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building Community: Reforming Math and Science Education in Rural Schools (c2006), by Paul Boyer (PDF at Alaska)
• Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education (1999), by Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (page images with commentary at NAP)
• National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent (HTML at ed.gov)
• No Excuses: Seven Principals of Low-Income Schools Who Set the Standard for High Achievement, by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)
• Raising the Educational Achievement of Secondary School Students: An Idea Book, by United States Department of Education (HTML with commentary at ed.gov)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002), by National Research Council Center for Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs, and Cures (ILR reprints #641 (originally appeared in The Year in School Science); 1989), by John H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)

• Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the First Year Experience (Adelaide: Adelaide University Press, c2014), ed. by Heather Brook, Deane Fergie, Michael Maeorg, and Dee Michell (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• The Monstered Self: Narratives of Death and Performance in Latin American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, c1992), by Eduardo González (page images at HathiTrust)

• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• ...So They Understand...: Cultural Issues in Oral History (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1996), by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), ed. by Francesca Orsini and Katherine Butler Schofield (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Barre Toelken (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1995), by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft (1990), by Eric Tamm (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Roger Moseley (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• A Musicology of Performance: Theory and Method Based on Bach's Solos for Violin (version 1.2; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Dorottya Fabian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Les Rythmes du Regard et la Dissociation des Doigts (in French; Paris: Lib. Fischbacher, 1906), by Marie Jaëll
  • page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.