New and scientific self-instructing school for the violin.

NEW AND SCIENTIFIC

SELF-INSTRUCTING SCHOOL FOR THE VIOLIN,
ON AN ENTIRELY DIFFERNT METHOD FROM ANY WORK OF THE KIND HERTOFORE OFFERD TO THE PUBLIC IN THIS COUNTRY

INDENDED FOR
BEGINNERS, AMATEURS, BUSINESS PLAYERS, AND TEACHERS.

IN THREE PARTS, COMPLETE IN ONE.

BY GEORGE SAUNDERS,
PROFESSOR OF MUSIC AND DANCING.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE CONTENTS OF THE THREE DIFFERENT PARTS.
Part First. — How the Violin should be kept; how it should be strung; of holding the Violin and bow ; of tuning the Violin; of rosin; of repairing the
Violin; Rudiments of Music; major and minor keys; preliminary exercises; varieties of bowing, with their explanations; on the management of the bow
and right arm; between 80 and 90 favorite pieces, such as Waltzes, Songs, Reels, Gallops, Hornpipes, &c., with the bowing and fingering all marked,
and arranged as progressive lessons. In those lessons, the puil is shown the method in which all the major keys are transposed; this is of the utmost im-
portance to him, as it is one of the most difficult things in music for the scholar to understand, and without which he might remain for years in ignorance
in regard to them

Part Second. — Of the different positions; example of the different shifts, ascending; exampel of the different shifts, descending; manner of substituting
one finger for the other, on the same note; extension of fingering; of borrowed fingering; of the natural harmonic tones; of simple double stops; of com-
pound double stops; 76 select airs, of every description of style; among these will be found a vey rare collection of Scotch and other Reels, Themes,
Hornpipes, Waltzes, Gallops, &c., with the bowing, fingering, and positions marked and written in the best possible style, either for progressive lessons
amateurs, or business players. Also, 50 different kinds of bowing, continued from part first, and completed;arpeggios on three strings, with twelve dif
ferent kinds of bowing; arpeggions on four strings, with twelve different kinds of bowing; chromatic scale, &c.

Part Third. — How to set figures to music, and music ot figures; method of learning to call cotillons; how music, for dancing, should be played; what
kind of music ot select for dancing; how the sets are formed on the floor; observations on calling figures; abbreviations necessary to be used in writing
figures; thirteen choice sets of cotillons, with all the differnt figures written to them that are made use of in this country; a variety of some of the most
popluar contra, Spanish, and fancy dances, with the proper figures set to them.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY OLIVER DISTON & CO., 277 WASHINGTON STREET.
NEW YORK: C. H. DITSON & CO.