Sight Reading Practice #5

This melody is in F major.

This melody starts and ends on tonic.

The notes with dots should be played legato.

There is a descending chromatic line in play. Do you recognize the tune?

The hooked bowings are to make sure down bows occur on downbeats.

Cantabile means to play in a forceful manner. 

The back and forth undulating string crossing pattern is called bariolage.

The eights with dots should be played staccato rather than spiccato.

There are three bowing styles in this melody.

The E natural accidental suggests this is in the Harmonic minor mode.