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Ex. 15.23.Haydn String Quartet op. 33/2/ii, in Baillot, L'Art du violon, 77<br />

Later in the century it seems to have become a habit among French violinists to make portamento with something<br />

approaching the method by which, according to Spohr, ‘an unpleasant whining’ could hardly be avoided.Hermann<br />

Schröder, in 1887, having condemned the practice, added:‘Particularly in the French school, from which we have<br />

already acquired many good things in pleasant performance and in light handling of the bow, this perverted mannerism<br />

is often customary and beloved, but we ourselves absolutely cannot approve of it.’ 1128 Charles de Bériot's Méthode de<br />

violon of 1858 is particularly revealing because of the three signs Bériot devised to indicate the speed of the portamento<br />

(Ex. 15.24;) he seems to recommend this French form of<br />

Ex. 15.24.Bériot, Méthode, 237<br />

1128 Die Kunst des Violinspiels, 33.<br />

PORTAMENTO 579

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