VIBRATO
Sir,-Your correspondent "Enquirer" may be interested to know that "vibrato" as applied to pianoforte technique was first named by Breithaupt, a contemporary of Matthay. Thomas Fielden, the celebrated professor at the Royal College of Music, defines it thus: "A state of fixation (or tension), of whole groups of muscles, which contains in itself, and controls, a corresponding group of actions, and is initiated by one embracing impulse of nerve power. The ultimate result of continued practice of this is a lessened strain in the tension, the physical actions becoming reflex, controlled as before by the inceptive nervous impulse: and these nervous impulses can be trained to control crouns of such reflex actions.’
C. STUART
PANTING
(Palmer-
ston North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 5
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119VIBRATO New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 5
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