"Plein de feu, plein d'audace, plein de change" : examining the role of the Méthode de violon in the establishment of the French Violin School

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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Airdrie Kalyn
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Fine Arts
dc.contributor.supervisorVisentin, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-28T22:02:15Z
dc.date.available2014-10-28T22:02:15Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.description.abstractIn 1782, Italian violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti performed in the Concerts spirituels of Paris, causing a sensation with his new style of playing, deemed “plein de feu, plein d’audace,” “full of fire, full of audacity.” This paper discusses Viotti’s style in the context of his use of the Tourte bow and “modernized” model of Stradivarius violin. Viotti’s chief disciples were French violin virtuosi Rodolphe Kreutzer, Pierre Rode and Pierre Baillot. As inaugural professors of the Paris Conservatoire, they championed Viotti's musical aesthetic and created pedagogical materials enabling others to emulate it. In 1803, Kreutzer, Rode and Baillot collaborated to produce Méthode de Violon, a technique manual expounding Viotti’s style and establishing a French Violin School of performance practice. This thesis identifies idiomatic signature elements of this style in the Méthode and comments upon the significance of the Conservatoire’s standardization of instruction, both of which prove foundational to the legacy of the French Violin School.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3574
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0413en_US
dc.proquest.subject0522en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Musicen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Musicen_US
dc.publisher.facultyFine Artsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Fine Arts)en_US
dc.subjectMéthode de violonen_US
dc.subjectGiovanni Battista Viottien_US
dc.subjectFrench Violin Schoolen_US
dc.subjecttechniqueen_US
dc.subjectviolin instructionen_US
dc.subjectViolin -- Instruction and study -- 19th century
dc.subjectViolin -- Bowing -- 19th century
dc.subjectViolin -- Methods -- 19th century
dc.subjectViolin music -- 19th century -- History and criticism
dc.subjectViotti, Giovanni Battista, 1755-1824
dc.subjectKreutzer, Rodolphe, 1766-1831
dc.subjectRode, P. (Pierre), 1774-1830
dc.subjectBaillot, Pierre Marie François de Sales, 1771-1842
dc.subjectViolin -- Performance -- France -- History
dc.subjectConservatories of music -- France -- Paris -- 19th century
dc.subjectDissertations, Academic
dc.title"Plein de feu, plein d'audace, plein de change" : examining the role of the Méthode de violon in the establishment of the French Violin Schoolen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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