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etween expression and the manner in which the portamento might be applied(Ex. 15.37.) <strong>The</strong> starting positions of<br />

some of the portamento signs, especially in the second and fourth examples, suggest that Bériot may sometimes have<br />

expected the portamento to begin at a lower pitch than the preceding note, in the manner of Corri's ‘leaping grace’,<br />

though he gave no explicit instructions to that effect. <strong>The</strong>re is no evidence that what he indicates for the example from<br />

Mozart's G minor Quintet represents anything that Mozart might have envisaged, but it certainly resembles the effects<br />

that can still be heard on some recordings of the work from the first half of the twentieth century.<br />

Ex. 15.37.Bériot, Méthode, 241<br />

PORTAMENTO 585

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