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Preliminary Remarks—The 'Cello Difficult to Master—The Choice of a Teacher—Choice of an Instrument and Bow.

Several works of more or less excellence have already been written on the violoncello and its study. It is all the more difficult then to write a work treating on the whole subject of 'cello playing, without in some measure going over the ground that has already been covered by previous writers. As I have found, however, that certain branches of this interesting study have received but scant treatment, and in some cases have even been completely ignored, I have directed my special attention to these subjects; thus, much that has been passed over in existing works will be found to have here received due treatment. Throughout the whole of the present work, I have endeavoured to clothe the matter in as original a manner as possible, and putting aside all stereotyped phrases, have tried to write in the same language that I would express myself in to a pupil having a course of actual lessons.

If by so doing, anything that the student may have passed over as being unimportant, now forces itself upon him, my aim will be accomplished.

In various parts of the work I have endeavoured to introduce the reader to some of the higher branches of 'cello playing, as far as it is possible through the medium of literature, but it must be understood that any treatise on the higher branches of music can only be of a general character, the laws which govern musical expression, or those in connection with the delivery of a musical composition are so fugitive, and players vary so much in the observation, or disregard of them, according to their individual temperament, etc., that to give any hard and fast rules would only be to put fetters on all individuality.

If the student is really musical he will obtain the best results in this direction, by hearing our first class artists interpret the works of the great masters: by thus bringing his faculties of observation and imitation into use, he will gradually absorb some of their style, which in due time will assert itself in his own performance.