The Short

Ex. 15.18.Spohr, Violin School: (a) p.108;(b) p.108;(c) p.109
Spohr's Violinschule also includes equivalents of Corri's ‘anticipation’ and‘leaping’ graces. The former occurs strikingly
in his annotated version of Rode's Seventh Concerto, where Rode himself had not indicated any such connection; 1125
and another good example can be found in the slow movement of Spohr's own Ninth Concerto (Ex. 15.19.) In violin
music a figure similar to the ‘leaping grace’ often occurs without any portamento (Ex. 15.20;) this version of the
ornament is frequently used on instruments that have more limited possibilities for portamento or, like the keyboard,
none at all. But at times this, too,
Ex. 15.19.Spohr, Violin School, 214
Ex. 15.20.Spohr, Violin School, 167
1125 See Ex. 12.10, bar 68.
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