Rascal Flatts & Jill Johnson - Come Wake Me Up

Classic 18th century violin school viewed V. only as a kind of jewelry and attributed this technique to ornamentation. J. Tartini in his Treatise on Ornamentation (Trattato delle appogiatura, c. 1723, ed. 1782) calls V. "tremolo" and considers it as a kind of so-called game manners. Its use, as well as other jewelry (trill, grace, etc.), was allowed in cases "when the affect requires it." By Tartini and L.Mozartu (“The experience of a solid violin school” - “Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule”, 1756), B. is possible in the cantilena, in long, sustained sounds, especially in “final musical phrases”. With mezza voce - imitation of the human voice - V., on the contrary, "should never be applied." Distinguished V.