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Slurred bowing: | Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro Schubert: Symphony No. 8 Verdi: Aida Mozart: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter” Handel: “Rejoice Greatly” Mozart: Symphony No. 39 Ravel: Concerto pour la main gauche |
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Using the Lower half of the bow: | Wagner: Die Meistersinger Chabrier: España Borodin: Symphony No. 2 Debussy: La mer Brahms: Haydn Variations |
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Using the Upper half of the bow: | Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Weber: Der Freischütz Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 |
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Bowing Effects: | Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia Rossini: Overture from Guillaume Tell Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Holst: “Mars” from The Planets Ravel: Alborada del gracioso |
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Spiccato: | Verdi: La Traviata Schubert: Octet in F Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 Verdi: Falstaff Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
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Bowing Dotted Rhythms: | Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Wagner: Lohengrin Mahler: Symphony No. 2 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Schubert: Symphony No. 9 |
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Pique / Shoe-shine bows: | Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique | |
Slurred-in upbeats: | Musorgsky: Boris Godunov Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty |
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Bowing patterns: | Mozart: Symphony No. 35 “Haffner” Mozart: Don Giovanni Rossini; Il Barbiere di Siviglia Mozart: Symphony No. 40 Haydn: Symphony No. 88 Verdi: La forza del destino Mozart: Symphony No. 39 Mozart: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter” Dvorak: Serenade for strings Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2 Britten: The Young Person’s Guide Puccini: Madama Butterfly Mozart: Die Zauberflöte |
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Amsterdam rhythm: | Schubert: Octet in F Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 |
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Reverse Bowing: | Wagner: Götterdämmerung Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 |
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Harmonics: | Ravel: La valse, Valse nobles et sentimentales, etc Dragonetti: Concerto in A Stravinsky: Agon Ravel: L’enfant et les sortilèges, L’heure Espagnole |
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Tenor and Treble clefs: | Berg: Drei Orchesterstücke, Wozzeck Ginastera: Variation XI from Variaciones Concertantes |
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Pizzicato Techniques: | Bach: Adagio from Suite No. 3 Janacek: Sinfonietta Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 Ravel: Daphne et Chloé |
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Left-hand Techniques: | Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 |