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Abstract
This project was designed to produce a cello edition of the Carl Flesch Violin Scale System. Since other pedagogical works for violin such as those written by Kreutzer, Paganini, and Sevcik have been transcribed for cello, and there exists no previous cello edition of the Carl Flesch Violin Scale System, it was deemed appropriate to produce an edition for cello. The purpose of the cello edition was to provide the cellist with the Scale System so that he may benefit from its practice as the violinists do.
The edition was prepared with an overall view of Carl Flesch pedagogy and pedagogical materials for the cello. The note patterns were transferred without change except where the physical limitations of the cello predicated a reduction and relocation of the violin original. Each scale was transferred to begin on the lowest possible note on the cello for that scale and continued at the same distance from the violin original throughout. The bowings were taken from the Scale System, Scale Exercises in All Major and Minor Keys for Daily Study by Carl Flesch. The edition includes three kinds of scales which are produced in complete form in the keys of C major, C minor, and E major; the remaining 21 scales are presented using the first section of each scale. This format provides the user with three examples of the basic forms which can then be preserved in transposition to the other keys and the various bowings of the remaining keys would be given. Fingerings have been given as a point of departure and should be considered variable after the basic fingerings have been learned.
Chapter I is in an introduction to the project and Chapter II is a biographical sketch of Carl Flesch. The sketch gives the pedagogical background of his life, his works, and various comments about him by his colleagues. Chapter III contains an in-depth discussion of the technical principles of the Carl Flesch Violin Scale System as it relates to the cello edition. This is followed by Chapter IV which contains the manuscript of the cello edition.
