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• 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)
• Forty-two studies or caprices for the violin. (G. Schirmer, 1923), by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty-six studies or caprices for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1923), by Federigo Fiorillo and Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• School of bowing technic. Op. 2. (Bosworth, 1901), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty-nine violin études for the systematic study of double-stops. (G. Schirmer, 1917), by Eduard Herrmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comprehensive scale manual for violin (C. Fischer, 1928), by Hans Wessely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daily studies : for developing flexibility and independence in fingering : for violin (1904), by Edmund Singer and Carl Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• 60 études de concert : pour violon : Ecole transcendante : op. 123 = Konzert-Etüden : für Violone (B. Schott's Söhne, 1866), by Ch. de Bériot (page images at HathiTrust)
• 15 Künstler-Etüden : für Violine solo (C.F. Peters, 1912), by František Ondříček (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• School of violin technics : op. 1 (G. Schirmer, 1905), by O. Sevčik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern scale studies : for the violin (O. Ditson, 1927), by Max Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-four caprices, (studies) for the violin, in the 24 major and minor scales (G. Schirmer, 1895), by P. Rode and Ferdinand David (page images at HathiTrust)
• 40 variations faciles : pour le violon : op. 3 (Bosworth & Co. ;, 1901), by O. Ševčík and H. Brett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twelve characteristic preludes : (in form of melodic studies) : for violin : op. 9 (C. Fischer, 1924), by Leopold Auer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete scale-studies : for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1940), by Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gradus ad Parnassum du violoniste : Op. 36 = Meister-Schule für die Violine = High school of the violin (Rob. Forberg, 1912), by Émile Sauret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 18 studies for violin, op. 71 (G. Ricordi, 1926), by Johannes Palaschko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sixty studies for the violin : op. 45 (G. Schirmer ;, in the 1990s), by Franz Wohlfahrt and Gaston Blay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowing studies (N. Simrock, 1910), by Henri Marteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twenty-four studies for the violin : op. 33 (G. Schirmer, in the 1940s), by A. Blumenstengel and Frederick Herman Martens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-four études-caprices : for violin : op. 41 (G. Schirmer, 1921), by Jean Delphin Alard, Josef Gingold, Ivan Galamian, and Leopold Lichtenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete conservatory method for the violin (C. Fischer, 1894), by Jean Delphin Alard (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to practise : problems of violin technic and suggestions for mastering them (C. Fischer, 1923), by Alexander Bloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Lösung des Geigentechnischen Problems : ein rationeller Weg zur Erlangung einer sicheren, zuverlässigen Technik der linken und rechten Hand : mit 27 Abbildungen und Spezialübungen zur Ausbildung der Lagenwechsels und des Handgelenks (Bote & Bock, 1913), by Issay Barmas, F. H. Schneider, Nestor Lejeune, and Alfred Moffat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty-six etudes or caprices, for violin (C. Fischer, 1900), by Federigo Fiorillo and Emil Kross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six études for solo violin in two- to four-part harmony (G. Schirmer, 1923), by H. W. Ernst and Leopold Auer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-four études and caprices for the violin, op. 35 (G. Schirmer, 1914), by Jakob Dont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Violon : les grandes méthodes romantiques de violon (Editions J.M. Fuzeau, 2001), by N. Fromageot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twelve études, for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1922), by P. Rode and Leopold Lichtenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• 42 studies or caprices for the violin (White-Smith Pub. Co., 1893), by Rodolphe Kreutzer, Ambrose Davenport, and Emil Kross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Violin-schule = Violin-school (G. Schirmer ;, 1903), by F. Hermann and Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty-two studies for violin (C. Fischer, in the 1890s), by Rodolphe Kreutzer, Gustav Saenger, Henry Lambert, and Edmund Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• 24 Etuden : (Matinées) : für Violine solo (C.F. Peters, in the 1870s), by Pierre Gaviniés and F. Hermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• School of bowing : 4000 systematic and progressively graded technical bowing exercises : for violin : op. 2 (C. Fischer, 1904), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies for the violin, op. 32. Book II : twenty studies in the second, third, fourth, and fifth positions (O. Ditson Co., 1904), by Hans Sitt and Eugene Gruenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technical studies for violin, Op. 92. First part : exercises and etudes for the cultivation of the left hand (C. Fischer, 1905), by Hans Sitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violinist's daily companion : one hundred and twenty-five exercises, studies and extracts for the violin (C. Fischer, 1909), by Gustav Saenger (page images at HathiTrust)
• New scale studies for the violin (C. Fischer, 1911), by Carl Halir and Edith Lynwood Winn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mittelstufe des Violinspiels : nach neuem System und auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage (C.F. Peters, in the 1910s), by František Ondříček and S. Mittelmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Systematic scale studies : for the violin, op. 18 (Boston Music Co. ;, 1917), by Emil Kross and Hugo Ries (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'école moderne : pour violon seul : op. 10 (Universal-Edition, in the 1910s), by Henri Wieniawski and Richard Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Student's concerto for violin and piano, no.4 in D, op. 15 (Third position) (Carl Fischer, 1904), by Friedrich Seitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale-studies for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1912), by Hans Sitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve caprices : for violin, op. 3 & 5 (G. Schirmer, 1903), by Pietro Rovelli and Leopold Lichtenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale system : scale exercises in all major and minor keys for daily study (Carl Fischer, 1926), by Carl Flesch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-four studies for the violin = (Matinées) (G. Schirmer, 1908), by Pierre Gaviniés and Leopold Lichtenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete scale-studies for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1895), by Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven divertissements : for violin : op. 18 (Carl Fischer, 1912), by Bartolomeo Campagnoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art du violon : 25 caprices (Ricordi, 1997), by Pietro Antonio Locatelli and Romeo Franzoni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 36 elementary and progressive studies for the violin, op. 20 (G. Schirmer ;, in the 1990s), by Kayser and Louis Svečenski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale studies : for violin (Carl Fischer, 1911), by Henry Schradieck and Gustav Saenger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new and progressive method on the mechanism of violin playing divided into four parts with the requisite explanatory remarks, and consisting of 132 progressive lessons for two violins and 118 studies for one violin only. (Boston, 1800), by Bartolomeo Campagnoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sette divertimenti o sonate per violino, op. 18 : composti per esercizio delle sette principali posizioni (G. Ricordi, 1922), by Bartolomeo Campagnoli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Violin school : op. 50 (White-Smith Music, 1887), by Louis Schubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty variations, op. 3 (Bosworth, 1901), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studies preparatory to the shake : op. 7 ; Changes of position and scale exercises preparatory thereto : op. 8 ; Preparatory studies in double stopping : op. 9 (Bosworth, 1901), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Selected studies for the violin, op. 36 (G. Schirmer, 1916), by F. Mazas and Sam Franko (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles & practice of violin bowing: & method which reduces the usual difficulties for the left hand in order that individual attention may be concentrated upon the bow-arm. (G. Schirmer, 1916), by Alexander Bloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maia Bang violin method (Carl Fischer, 1919), by Maia Bang and Leopold Auer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Künstlertechnik des Violinspiels = The artist's technic of violin-playing ; a new method on scientific basis for obtaining in the shortest possible time absolute mastery of the higher technical difficulties of the left hand and bow (Universal-Edition, 1921), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Urstudien (basic studies) for violin (Carl Fischer, 1911), by Carl Flesch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new and complete guide to the art of playing on the violin : containing a comprehensive treatise on the first rudiments of music ... (Printed & sold by Preston, 1800), by T. Goodban (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty-two studies for violin (Carl Fischer, 1915), by Rodolphe Kreutzer and Emil Kross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty-two studies or caprices for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1894), by Rodolphe Kreutzer and Edmund Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• 40 études ou caprices : pour violon (C.F. Peters, 1800), by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Violin studies (Bosworth, 1901), by O. Sevčik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Etudes de gammes (N. Simrock, 1916), by Henri Marteau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twenty-four exercises for the violin op. 37 : preparatory to the studies of R. Kreutzer and P. Rode (G. Schirmer, 1916), by Jakob Dont and Louis Svečenski (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twenty-four etudes or matinées : for the violin (C. Fischer, 1910), by Pierre Gaviniés and Edmund Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale studies for violin. (Carl Fischer, 1900), by J. Hřímalý (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 12 etudes pour violon. (C. F. Peters, in the 19th century), by P. Rode (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school of violin-technics (G. Schirmer, 1900), by Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chord studies for [the] violin. (G. Schirmer, 1919), by Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Preparatory trill studies : for violin ; op. 7 : for developing the touch and strength and surety of the fingers (C. Fischer, 1911), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sixty studies for the violin. op. 45 (G. Schirmer, 1905), by Franz Wohlfahrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scale-studies for the violin. (G. Schirmer, 1905), by J. Hřímalý (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spohr's grand violin school. (O. Ditson, 1852), by Louis Spohr (page images at HathiTrust)
• 36 elementary and progressive studies for the violin, op. 20 (G. Schirmer, 1915), by H. E. Kayser and Louis Svečenski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy-five melodious and progressive studies for the violin, op. 36 (G. Schirmer, 1898), by F. Mazas and F. Hermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first studies for the violin in the first position : systematically and progressively arranged, fingered and bowed : op. 25 (G. Schirmer, 1906), by Richard Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale studies for the violin (Carl Fischer, 1895), by Henry Schradieck and Gustav Saenger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty-two etudes or caprices, for the violin. (B. F. Wood Music Co., 1908), by Rodolphe Kreutzer and C. Grün (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original Ševčík violin studies. (Bosworth, 1901), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Études for the violin, op. 32 : in three books. Book II : Twenty études in the second, third, fourth and fifth positions (G. Schirmer, 1907), by Hans Sitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The violin and bow; a treatise, with numerous copies of photographs taken from life, supplemented by various examples and original studies, by I. B. Poznanski. Violine und Bogen; eine Abhandlung mit vielen Photographischen aufnahmen nach dem Leben und ergänzt durch verschiedene Beispiele und Original-Etüden. Traité du violon et de l'archet; avec de nombreuses photographies d'après nature, différents exemples et études originales. (St. Cecilia Music Pub. Co., 1894), by Isaac Barrett Poznanski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty-nine violin études : for the systematic study of double-stops (G. Schirmer, 1904), by Eduard Herrmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gradus ad Parnassum du violoniste : Meisterschule für die Violine = High school for the violin, op. 36 (R. Forberg, 1912), by Émile Sauret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 24 exercices pour violon (Aug. Cranz., 1900), by Pierre Gaviniés and Leo Portnoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tune a day : a first book for violin instruction in group, public school classes or individual lessons (Boston Music, 1927), by C. Paul Herfurth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical violin method. (Fischer, 1910), by Christian Heinrich Hohmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies preparatory to the shake and for developing the percussion of the fingers (touch) (Bosworth ;, 1901), by O. Ševčík and H. Brett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• School of bowing technic = Schule der Bogentechnik : 4000 systematisch fortschreitende Bogenstrichübungen für Violine, Op. 2 (Bosworth ;, 1901), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The School of bowing technic = Escuela de la técnica del arco : systematically and progressively graded bowing exercises for the violin : op. 2 (G. Schirmer, 1918), by O. Ševčík, Philipp Mittell, S. Lopez Miranda, and Theodore Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected violin studies : in the fourth, half and fifth positions (Presser, 1921), by Charles Levenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 24 Exercices pour le violin : préparatoire aux Etudes de R. Kreutzer et P. Rode (Augener & Co., 1890), by Jakob Dont (page images at HathiTrust)
• 24 caprices en forme d'études dans les 24 tons de la gamme pour violon seul (H. Litolff's Verlag ;, 1880), by P. Rode and A. Blumenstengel (page images at HathiTrust)
• 75 etudes mélodiques et progressives : pour violon, op. 36 (H. Litolff's Verlag, 1800), by F. Mazas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spohr's grand violin school. (O. Ditson, 1852), by Louis Spohr and U. C. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• First exercises in bowing : for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1918), by Charles Levenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etuden-Sammlung fur Violine. : Studies and exercises for violin (W. Hansen musikforlag, 1920), by Carl Flesch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Violin and viola calisthenics : class exercises without the actual production of sound (Belwin, 1951), by Bernard Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Método práctico para el violin = Practical method for the violin (G. Schirmer, 1925), by Christian Heinrich Hohmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school of violin technic (C. Fischer, 1900), by Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• 25 Studien für Violine : op. 1 (Kistner, in the 19th century), by Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scale-studies for the violin : appendix to Schradieck's scales (G. Schirmer, 1940), by Hans Sitt, Henry Schradieck, and Philipp Mittell (page images at HathiTrust)
• 50 melodische Violin-Etüden für die Elementar- und Mittelstufe, op. 76. 50 melodious studies for the violin. (B. Schott's Söhne, 1928), by Johannes Palaschko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moderne Etüden für Violine : unter berücksichtigung technischer Motive aus Meisterwerken der Violinliteratur = Modern studies for violin : composed with special reference to technical themes from master works of the violin (N. Simrock, 1929), by Hans Meyer-Raubinek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One hour's daily exercises for the violin. (G. Schirmer, 1918), by Efrem Zimbalist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamental trill studies : on a scientific basis for violin, op. 18 (The Strad, 1925), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty-six elementary and progressive studies for violin, op. 20 : Complete in one volume and in three books (G. Schirmer, 1915), by H. E. Kayser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Preparatory studies in thirds and fingered octaves : on a scientific basis for violin, op.16 (The Strad, 1924), by Demetrius Constantine Dounis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The school of violin-technics (G. Schirmer, 1928), by Henry Schradieck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schule der Violintechnik : op. 1 / O. Ševčík. (Bosworth;, 1901), by O. Ševčík (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Etudes and caprices for violin, op. 35 (Carl Fischer, 1903), by Jakob Dont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shifting the position and preparatory scale studies : for the violin, op. 8 (G. Schirmer, 1905), by O. Ševčík and Philipp Mittell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty-six elementary and progressive studies for violin, op. 20 (G. Schirmer, 1915), by H. E. Kayser and Louis Svečenski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preparatory trill studies for the violin, op. 7 : for developing the touch and strength and surety of the fingers = Estudios preparatorios de trino para violín : para el desarrollo del tomamiento y fuerza y seguridad de los dedos (G. Schirmer, 1921), by O. Ševčík and Louis Svečenski (page images at HathiTrust)
• 24 caprices : violino solo (Universal Edition, 1909), by P. Rode (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The original Ševčík violin studies : 40 variations, op. 3 (Bosworth, 1901), by O. Ševčík and H. Brett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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