THE WAY TO THE METHODICAL DISCOVERIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY (THE VIOLIN SCHOOL BY L. AUER IN THE LIGHT OF I. LESMAN’S COMMENTS)
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78.071.4
DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-47-115-121.
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Information about authors: Sukhanova Tatyana Borisovna, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor of Music Pedagogy and Performance Department, Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire (Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation). E-mail: t.b.suhanova@yandex.ru
Annotation: The article presents I. Lesman’s comments (presented in his manuscript “My Memories and Thoughts of L. S. Auer”) on the famous work of L. Auer “My School of Violin Playing.” The relevance of the topic is currently determined by the ambiguity of the assessments of musical-aesthetic and pedagogical criteria of this recognized master by his foreign contemporaries, as well as by Soviet authors. The purpose of the work is to supplement modern ideas with different points of view on L. Auer’s vision of methodological problems. The main research method is comparative; it allows to reveal the significance and perspectiveness of Auer’s methodological recommendations, which to some extent have been embodied in the statements of Russian musicologists of the 20th century. The article offers comments of both, I. Lesman and the author of this article, on the key problems of Auer’s work: the importance of the mental factor in instrumentalist training, close attention to the physiology of the playing movement, on the role of rhythm, nuance and phrasing in the perception of the work interpretation. The article considers a number of polemical issues: on the function of the violinist’s right hand in the process of sound extraction, on the use of vibrato, revealing the contradiction between the 19th and 20th centuries’ methodological guidelines and differences in ideas about the stylistic norms of musicians of different generations. Particular emphasis is placed on the views of L. Auer regarding the issues of music education, which in the second half of the 19th century proposed the idea of creating an internship program for music teachers and forcing standardization of private teaching in order to increase its level.
Keywords: L. Auer, “My School of Violin Playing,” I.A. Lesman, methods of teaching the violin.
DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-47-115-121.
Article ID in the RSCI:
Article file: Download
Information about authors: Sukhanova Tatyana Borisovna, PhD in Art History, Associate Professor of Music Pedagogy and Performance Department, Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire (Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation). E-mail: t.b.suhanova@yandex.ru
Annotation: The article presents I. Lesman’s comments (presented in his manuscript “My Memories and Thoughts of L. S. Auer”) on the famous work of L. Auer “My School of Violin Playing.” The relevance of the topic is currently determined by the ambiguity of the assessments of musical-aesthetic and pedagogical criteria of this recognized master by his foreign contemporaries, as well as by Soviet authors. The purpose of the work is to supplement modern ideas with different points of view on L. Auer’s vision of methodological problems. The main research method is comparative; it allows to reveal the significance and perspectiveness of Auer’s methodological recommendations, which to some extent have been embodied in the statements of Russian musicologists of the 20th century. The article offers comments of both, I. Lesman and the author of this article, on the key problems of Auer’s work: the importance of the mental factor in instrumentalist training, close attention to the physiology of the playing movement, on the role of rhythm, nuance and phrasing in the perception of the work interpretation. The article considers a number of polemical issues: on the function of the violinist’s right hand in the process of sound extraction, on the use of vibrato, revealing the contradiction between the 19th and 20th centuries’ methodological guidelines and differences in ideas about the stylistic norms of musicians of different generations. Particular emphasis is placed on the views of L. Auer regarding the issues of music education, which in the second half of the 19th century proposed the idea of creating an internship program for music teachers and forcing standardization of private teaching in order to increase its level.
Keywords: L. Auer, “My School of Violin Playing,” I.A. Lesman, methods of teaching the violin.
