Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Historical performance in context -- The seeds of growth -- The violin and viola literature -- Period violinists and violists -- Interpreting the evidence -- Standards of verity -- The value of historical performance -- 2 The repertory and principal sources -- Introduction -- The emancipation of the violin -- The mainstream solo violin repertory (c.1700-c.1900): a brief overview -- The late Baroque -- Towards Classicism -- The Romantic era -- The mainstream solo viola repertory to c.1900: a brief overview -- Primary sources -- Principal violin treatises -- Principal viola treatises -- Other treatises -- Surviving instruments, bows and accessories -- Iconography -- 3 Equipment -- The violin: origins and early history -- Early centres of violin making -- The viola: origins and early history -- Accessories -- Strings -- Chin-rest -- Mute -- Shoulder pad -- The bow: history and development -- Purchasing an early violin or viola -- Purchasing a violin/viola bow for early music -- 4 Technique -- Posture -- Holding the instrument -- Placement of the left hand and fingers -- Positions and shifting -- Diatonic and chromatic scale fingerings -- Timbre -- Vibrato -- Harmonics -- Pizzicato -- Pitch -- Tuning systems and scordatura -- Holding the bow -- Bow strokes and bow management -- Multiple stopping -- 5 The language of musical style -- Introduction -- National idioms and changes in style -- Specific and extempore ornamentation -- Rhythmic alteration -- Affect, rhetoric, and phrasing (general principles) -- Articulation, accentuation and melodic inflection as constituents of phrasing -- Tempo and tempo rubato -- Taste -- 6 Historical awareness in practice 1 - three eighteenth-century case studies: Corelli, Bach and Haydn.

Corelli: Sonata in A major, Op. 5 no. 9 -- Introduction -- Text -- Title and instrumentation -- Instruments -- Harpsichord continuo -- Pitch -- Bowing and national style -- Ornamentation and national style -- Expression -- Tempo -- J. S. Bach: Partita no.3 in E major for violin solo, BWV1006 -- Introduction -- Text -- Bach and Dance Music -- Preludio -- Loure -- Gavotte en Rondeau -- Menuet I and II -- Bourrée -- Gigue -- Rhythmic alteration -- Ornamentation -- Ornamenting the repeats -- Articulation and other bowing issues -- Towards an interpretation: general concerns -- Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no. 2 (Hob. III:38) -- Introduction -- Text -- Instruments -- Tempo and rhythm -- Bowing and articulation -- Phrasing and accentuation -- Expression -- Fingering, shifting and tone-colour -- Ornamentation -- Quartet placement and seating -- 7 Historical awareness in practice 2 - three nineteenth-century case studies: Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms -- Beethoven: Sonata in A major for violin and piano, Op. 47 ('Kreutzer') -- Introduction -- Sources and editions -- Other sources of information about performance practice -- Left-hand considerations (violin) -- Bowing considerations -- Tempo and tempo rubato -- Articulation -- Instruments -- Dynamics and Expression -- Ornamentation -- Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 -- Introduction -- Sources and editions -- Tempo -- Style and expression -- Left-hand considerations (violin) -- Some bowing issues -- Brahms: Sonata in E flat major, Op. 120 no. 2 for piano and viola (clarinet) -- Introduction -- Text and editions -- Instruments -- Tempo -- Tempo modification -- Articulation, phrasing and expression -- Portamento -- Vibrato -- 8 Related family members -- Notes -- Preface -- 1 Historical performance in context -- 2 The repertory and principal sources -- 3 Equipment.

4 Technique -- 5 The language of musical style -- 6 Historical awareness in practice 1 - three eighteenth-century case studies: Corelli, Bach and Haydn -- Corelli: Sonata in A Op. 5 no. 9 -- J. S. Bach: Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 -- Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33 no. 2 -- 7 Historical awareness in practice 2 - three nineteenth-century case studies: Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms -- Beethoven: Sonata in A, Op. 47 ('Kreutzer') -- Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Op. 64 -- Brahms: Sonata, Op. 120 no. 2 -- 8 Related family members -- Select bibliography -- Pre-1900 -- Post-1900 -- Index.