Скачать или смотреть Rob Diggins plays Jakob Dont Opus 37 – Exercise No.3 in a Minor

Jakob Dont Opus 37 – Exercise No.3 in a Minor is a violin warm-up and preliminary presentation of Jacques Dont’s Opus 37 exercises. Often, the key of a minor, a cousin of ‘sunny’ C major, expresses a journey, a tale, replete with trials and tribulations. The Afekt of a minor expresses the Bhāva of Vīra – courage colored by a touch of heroism (Vīra Rasa – heroic sentiment).

Jakob Dont Opus 37 – Exercise No.3 in a Minor is in two sections, an A section and a B section, both repeated.

Jakob Dont Opus 37 – Exercise No.3 in a Minor is written with a 6/8 time signature, and the entire exercise is written in sixteenth notes, 12 to a measure, thus, along with the Allegretto designation, create a Rajasic feeling-sense, or active quality. Rajas, literally, ‘excessive activity, passion, power, dirt’, or, the Rajas Guṇa, denotes human preoccupations and obsessions at the expense of spiritual fulfilment and peace (pg. 474, The Oxford Illustrated Companion to South Indian Classical Music, 2nd ed. – Ludwig Pesch).

Interestingly, a legato bow stroke is used throughout Jakob Dont Opus 37 – Exercise No.3 in a Minor, slurring an entire measure in one bow for the most part. This legato articulation naturally obscures somewhat, the Rajasic nature inherent in the sixteenth notes, causing the feeling-sense of discontent, of a need to search, of searching, to be all the more disturbing, and, because the closing cadence is in a minor, ultimately unfilled.

Jakob Dont Opus 37 – Exercise No.3 in a Minor is played mostly in 1st position, emphasizing smoothness and easeful string crossings.

I play the Jakob Dont Opus 37 – Exercise No.3 in a Minor and then talk about various aspects, demonstrating this and that. For example, the type of bow stroke and position of the bow on the string relative to the bridge and how to create dynamics by the change of three things: bow speed, amount of bow and variation in pressure.

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