THE STRAD gives early critical notices of all important New Music for
Stringed Instruments, with numbers to show the grade of difficulty of
every piece.

The following serial articles now appearing:

Joseph Guarnerius. By HORACE PETHERICK.

This series of articles contains a minute critical analysis of this
great maker's work, and the author claims to have discovered in Andreas
Gisalberti (a maker almost unknown at the present day), the teacher
of Joseph Guarnerius, a conclusion arrived at after the most convincing
evidence, which he puts forward in a very able and readable manner.
Full page illustrations of violins by Joseph Guarnerius and Andreas
Gisalberti are given.

Selected Violin Solos and How to Play them. By BASIL ALTHAUS, F.C.V.
Illustrated with music examples.

Specimen Copy, 2-1/2d., Post Free.

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"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. I.

_Crown 8vo., Cloth, 2/6, Post Free, 2/9._

_"THE STRAD" LIBRARY EDITION is the only Authorised Edition of_

Technics of Violin Playing
ON
JOACHIM'S METHOD
BY
CARL COURVOISIER,
With Folding Plates, containing Fifteen Illustrations.

LETTER FROM DR. JOACHIM [COPY]

MY DEAR MR. COURVOISIER: I have read the book on Violin Playing you
have sent me, and have to congratulate you sincerely on the manner in
which you have performed a most difficult task, _i.e._, to describe
the best way of arriving at a correct manner of playing the violin.

It cannot but be welcome to thoughtful teachers, who reflect on the
method of our art, and I hope that your work will prove useful to many
students.

Believe me, my dear Mr. Courvoisier, to be most faithfully yours,
JOSEPH JOACHIM.
Berlin, November 3rd, 1894.

The New and Revised Edition of "Technics of Violin Playing," issued
by THE STRAD, is the only authorised edition of my work. The several
English Editions which have all appeared without my knowledge are
_incomplete_ and _faulty_.

CARL COURVOISIER.

"THE STRAD" LIBRARY, No. II.

_Crown 8vo., Cloth, 2/6, Post Free, 2/9._

HOW TO STUDY THE VIOLIN
By J. T. CARRODUS.

CONTENTS.

Strings and Tuning. The Bow and Bowing. Faults and their Correction.
Scales and their Importance. Course of Study. Advice on Elementary
Matters. Concerning Harmonics, Octaves, etc. Orchestral Playing. Some
Experiences as a Soloist. With full page p