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A Guide for Playing the Viola Without a Shoulder Rest Chin Wei Chang University of South Carolina - Columbia University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Theses and Dissertations 2018 A Guide for Playing the Viola Without a Shoulder Rest Chin Wei Chang University of South Carolina - Columbia Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Chang, C.(2018). A Guide for Playing the Viola Without a Shoulder Rest. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5036 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you by Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Guide for Playing the Viola Without a Shoulder Rest by Chin Wei Chang Bachelor of Music National Sun Yat- sen University, 2010 Master of Music University of South Carolina, 2015 Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance School of Music University of South Carolina 2018 Accepted by: Daniel Sweaney, Major Professor Kunio Hara, Committee Member Craig Butterfield, Committee Member Ari Streisfeld, Committee Member Cheryl L. Addy, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School © Copyright by Chin Wei Chang, 2018 All Rights Reserved ii DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my dearest parents, San-Kuei Chang and Ching-Hua Lai. Thank you for all your support and love while I have pursued my degree over the past six years. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I truly appreciate the director of the dissertation, Dr. Daniel Sweaney, for his advice, inspiration, and continuous encouragement over the past four years. He is a friendly, supportive, and knowledgeable professor. Without his help and effort, it would have been impossible to complete this dissertation. I am grateful to Dr. Kunio Hara for his advice and willingness to help with all the details in my dissertation. He was so passionate in offering his help and in giving his many useful comments. Also, another huge thanks to both Dr. Streisfeld and Dr. Butterfield for their help and advice during the writing process of this dissertation. Lastly, I would like to thank my dearest friend, Isabel Ong, who helped with editing and never stopped rooting for me throughout this entire process. iv ABSTRACT Knowing how to hold the viola is always the first step for not only beginners but also for those that progress to become teachers, professional soloists, orchestral musicians, and chamber musicians. Although there are pedagogy books and articles, these resources only devote a small amount to how to hold the instrument. There are also a number of videos online in which violinists or violists share their thoughts on this topic. As a violist, holding the viola is a lifetime issue because of the weight, and the variety of shapes and sizes of the instrument. These factors can cause more difficulty than holding the violin which is lighter and has less variety in size and shape. I had been searching for a way to hold the viola comfortably and without tension for many years. I found a comfortable and balanced way to play the viola without a shoulder rest and have been doing so since 2015. The main purpose of this dissertation is to share my experience on the thoughts of the chinrest and shoulder rest and how I learned to play without a shoulder rest. I hope these ideas will help other violists at all levels if they are interested in finding comfort and balance without a shoulder rest. v TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION ................................................................................................................... iii ACKNOWLEGDMENTS ................................................................................................. iv ABSTRACT .........................................................................................................................v LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... viii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................1 1.1 LITERATURE REVIEW .......................................................................................4 1.2 LIMITATIONS OF RESEARCH ...........................................................................6 CHAPTER 2: STRING ACCESSORIES ............................................................................8 2.1 THE CHINREST ....................................................................................................9 2.2 THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE CHINREST ..........14 2.3 HOW TO CHOOSE A CHINREST .....................................................................15 2.4 THE SHOULDER REST .....................................................................................18 2.5 THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE SHOULDER REST ....................................................................................................................25 2.6 HOW TO CHOOSE A SHOULDER REST ........................................................26 CHAPTER 3: DO WE REALLY NEED A SHOULDER REST? ....................................29 3.1 DIFFERENT IDEAS FROM THE EARLY 17TH TO THE MIDDLE 18TH CENTURY ...........................................................................................................32 3.2 DIFFERENT IDEAS FROM THE LATE 18TH TO THE 19TH CENTURY .......36 3.3 IDEAS FROM VIOLISTS ...................................................................................44 vi CHAPTER 4: TO PLAY THE VIOLA WITHOUT A SHOULDER REST.....................53 4.1. FOUR DIRECTIONS OF MOVEMENT WHEN BALANCING THE VIOLA .................................................................................................................55 4.2 PREVENTATIVE MEASURES AGAINST PLAYING INJURIES AND SELF- CHECKING ..............................................................................................71 4.3 PHYSICAL BENEFITS OF PLAYING THE VIOLA WITHOUT A SHOULDER REST ..............................................................................................74 4.4 WARM UP EXERCISES BEFORE AND AFTER PRACTICE OR PERFORMANCE ................................................................................................75 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION ..........................................................................................77 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..............................................................................................................79 vii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 2.1 The chinrest draft by Louis Spohr ....................................................................10 Figure 2.2 (Side mounted) Teka chinrest ...........................................................................12 Figure 2.3 SAS chinrest .....................................................................................................12 Figure 2.4 Kréddle chinrest................................................................................................13 Figure 2.5 Different height settings ...................................................................................13 Figure 2.6 Lynne Denig and Gary Frisch shoulder rest kits ..............................................17 Figure 2.7 Vivaldi’s portrait with a rope ...........................................................................18 Figure 2.8 Becker shoulder rest .........................................................................................19 Figure 2.9 Kun Bravo shoulder rest with the new rubber feet ...........................................21 Figure 2.10 Kun Voce shoulder rest ..................................................................................21 Figure 2.11 Bon Musica with different height settings......................................................22 Figure 2.12 VLM shoulder rest ..........................................................................................24 Figure 2.13 Comfort Cradle shoulder rest .........................................................................25 Figure 3.1 Mozart: the comfortable way of holding the violin ..........................................34 Figure 4.1 The examination of the best position of the viola ............................................54 Figure 4.2 Position without stretching the back; Position when the back is stretched ...........................................................................................................55 Figure 4.3 Four Directions of movement. ..........................................................................56 Figure 4.4 Three balance points for supporting the viola ..................................................57 Figure 4.5 Exercise of lifting the viola ..............................................................................58 viii Figure 4.6 Feeling the whole body as a seesaw .................................................................59 Figure 4.7 Bow arm motion (Arch motion) .......................................................................60 Figure 4.8 Open- close motion: motion of the viola: up bow and down bow ...................61 Figure 4.9 The direction of the bow arm and the viola ......................................................62 Figure 4.10 The direction of down bow and up bow .........................................................62 Figure 4.11 The right elbow is higher than the wrist at the tip on the higher strings ........63 Figure 4.12 The elbow of the bow arm is lower than the
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