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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO JL PRINCIPLES OP VIOLIN PLAYING & TEACHING SECOND EDITION Ivan Galamian Ivan Galamian's original edition has been preserved without changes. His philosophy, principles of teaching, and practice methods produced astonish¬ ing results with student after student, many of whom are among the present generation of world-acclaimed concert artists and orchestral concertmasters. Professor Emeritus Elizabeth A. H. Green, who was a student of Galamian, and assisted with the first edition, has written a new section for this edition. GALAMIAN IN THE STUDIO presents his actual teaching as he applied his principles. Professor Green details Galamian’s introduction to his practice methods through the A-major scale, with the many variations on the stan¬ dard etudes that the students encoun¬ tered in using his unique practice methods, and with a glossary of the standard etudes from Kreutzer to the Wieniawsky "Ecole.” All of the new material is cross-indexed to the original Galamian writing. (i: nrni‘1' on the •ck flap) 3 9048 03228775 1 S.S.F. PUBLIC LIBRARY Q GRAND AVENUE S.S.F. PUBLIC LIBRARY GRAND AVENUE Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/principlesofviol00gala_0 PRINCIPLES OF VIOLIN PLAYING & TEACHING PRINCIPLES OF VIOLIN PLAYING TEACHING second edition Ivan Galamian with a postscript by Elizabeth A. H. Green Professor Emeritus (Music) The University of Michigan PRENTICE-HALL, INC., ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY 07632 S.S.F. PUBLIC LIBRARY r*n a Mr% a. __ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Galamian, Ivan. Principles of violin playing & teaching. Publications by Ivan Galamian: p. 134. Includes indexes. 1.Violin—Instruction and study. I. Title. II. Title: Principles of violin playing and teaching. MT260.G34 1985 787.1'07T2 84-11597 ISBN 0-13-710773-0 Editorial/production supervision and interior design: Elizabeth H. Athorn Manufacturing buyer: Raymond Keating Frontispiece photo © 1978 Peter Schaff, New York Jacket designed by Lundgren Graphics, Ltd. © 1962, 1985 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 ISBN 0-13-710773-0 01 Prentice-Hall International, Inc., London Prentice-Hall of Australia Pty. Limited, Sydney Editora Prentice-Hall do Brasil Ltda., Rio de Janeiro Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., Toronto Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi Prentice-Hall of Japan, Inc., Tokyo Prentice-Hall of Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore Whitehall Books Limited, Wellington, New Zealand I have lived in the era of the world’s great pedagogues. No man has contributed so much to the art of violin playing in the last fifty years as has Ivan Galamian. He was a wonderful human being, devoted to his students and friends, and, to those who knew him intimately, he represented the ideal in Music and in Life. Josef Gingold Nothing could give me greater pleasure than to write a few words about my teacher, Ivan Galamian. He was a virtuoso teacher whose system of teaching the violin was both ingenious and logical. He applied that system to all of his students, and it worked, no matter how much or how little talent the student had—a true sign of a great pedagogue. This book, Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching, gives us a wonderful insight into Mr. Galamian’s very special method of teaching the violin and I am sure that it will be of great benefit to the readers. I am delighted that this book is being reissued, not only for the benefit of countless violin students, but also because it is a fitting tribute to Mr. Galamian’s lifelong work. Itzhak Perlman