From “tightness” – to freedom: methodological discussion about topical problems of violin performance

Abstract

This article is based on a summary of the report read by the author at the Siberian State Institute of Arts named after V.I. D. Hvorostovsky at a methodological seminar on March 24, 2021 within the framework of the Krasnoyarsk String Art School and addressed to both young violinists and their mentors. Taking into account the wide resonance caused by it in the professional pedagogical community, proving the relevance of the problem under consideration and the outlined approaches to its solution, the material is presented in the form of an article, which allows you to record and replicate the results of the author's many years of methodological work. However, at the same time, an attempt is being made to remain in the field of dialogic genres, since violin (and not only) pedagogy is largely based on the art of communication. For the presentation of the material, the genre of conversation is chosen, the purpose of which is to attract the attention of the interlocutor and give a guiding thread, an idea that helps him find a way out of the labyrinth of technological problems and “difficulties”. This idea is stated in the title of the article: from constriction to freedom. Let us emphasize that this is not only about energy saving: the removal of unnecessary stresses opens the only possible way of realizing natural, unconstrained play movements, the result of which is immeasurably superior – both in artistic and technological terms - to constrained movements, built on the forceful overcoming of clamps.