The Book Depository Violin Studies Opus 8 by Otakar Sevcik
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Description: Violin Studies Opus 8 : Book : Hal Leonard Europe Limited : 9781844495009 : 1844495000 : 01 Jul 2004 : (Music Sales America). A compendium of studies for changes of positions with preparatory scale studies. One of the unique advantages of the shifting exercises in Sevcik's Op. 8 is that they provide a musical framework within which to place each shift. In English and German. The Book Depository Violin Studies Opus 8 by Otakar Sevcik - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: Mrs Jill Camprubi
Rating: 5
Review: A new and crisp copy of this book of studies arrived as advertised..Thank you.
Author: Allen Worcester
Rating: 3
Review: This is the first time I have ever consulted a work by Sevcik, though he is one of the long-established masters of the violin and of violin studies. The book concentrates on changes of position and scalic work, and is formulated along the lines of setting up in each numbered study a certain finger pattern of one bar in length which the student masters and repeats both in every position and every key signature. There is no doubt that assiduous study using this method would help you to perfect a formidable technique, but the experience would not be a very musical one. I think Sevcik's approach must have been considered very thorough and "scientific" in its heyday, but in recent years I think most students and teachers would prefer using studies that are more based on melodic and musical lines that nonetheless still get across all the grounding needed in employing techniques in these areas. In short, the work only gets three stars in my book because I feel that a violin student could quite happily miss out on any of Sevcik's studies and still be none the worse for basing their technical studies on the plenty of alternatives that are available.
