Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 2004 A practical guide to twentieth-century violin etudes with performance and theoretical analysis Aaron Michael Farrell Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY VIOLIN ETUDES WITH PERFORMANCE AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS A Monograph Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in The School of Music by Aaron M. Farrell B. M., Eastman School of Music, 1994 M.M., Louisiana State University, 1996 August 2004 To all of the teachers in my life ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my mentor, Kevork Mardirossian, for all that he has done for me since 1995. A great deal of what is expressed in this paper about violin playing, technique, practicing and musicianship is derived from what I learned in my lessons with Kevork. He has been an inspiration as a teacher and a performer, and I am eternally grateful for having had the opportunity to work with him.