Violin & Viola

Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides

by Yehudi Menuhin, William Primrose

Yehudi Menuhin shares with the reader his unique store of understanding about the violin, about how to exercise and practise, and about the techniques of performance. His reflections on the nature and scope of his instrument are profoundly illuminating and his theories on interpretation particularly valuable. William Primrose writes the distinguished monograph on the viola and describes the instrument as 'a violin with a college education'.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1976

About the author

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He also served to help popularize yoga in the West by arranging for B.K.S. Iyengar to teach throughout Europe in the 1950s.

In 1993, he was made a life peer, as Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey, U.K.

Reviews

[Beatrice]

E' un libro che ho trovato pesante da leggere, ma sicuramente non posso farne una colpa agli scrittori, entrambi musicisti eccellenti, che offrono anche molti consigli utili sull'insegnamento. La sezione sul repertorio è la più interessante ed è sicuramente da approfondire. Consigliato a tutti i violinisti e violisti, soprattutto agli insegnanti e agli studenti di livello avanzato.