Paganini 24 Caprices Affix Blame on Elementary's Déjà Vu All Over Again

Summary: The Paganini 24 Caprices allow a consulting detective to ascertain whom to arrest as a ladykiller on Elementary's Déjà Vu All Over Again March 14, 2013.

pencil portrait of violinist Niccolò Paganini, drawn in 1819 by French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Aug. 29, 1780-Jan. 14, 1867); Louvre Museum, Paris, France: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Paganini 24 Caprices affirm a violinist's abilities even as they assert his astuteness about a ladykiller on Elementary procedural drama television series episode Déjà Vu All Over Again March 14, 2013.

Director Jerry Levine and writer Brian Rodenbeck bring into the first season's 18th episode a busker who breaks off in mid-performance before a subway platform audience. Season One's second episode, While You Were Sleeping, Oct. 4, 2012, concludes with Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) closing cases and celebrating with classical violin compositions. Sherlock displays musical and deductive discernment through Johann Sebastian Bach's (March 31, 1685-July 28, 1750) Chaconne and Niccolò Paganini's (Oct. 27, 1782-May 27, 1840) 24 Caprices.

The Bach Chaconne and the Paganini 24 Caprices respectively expose Sherlock's expertise in effecting exquisitely exact performances and evidencing an eidetic memory of the original manuscripts.

The "bowing, fingering, double-stop trills" furnish Sherlock with the fiddled piece, as the Paganini 11th caprice, before Vivian Tully (Penny McNamee) falls from the subway platform.

Sherlock grasps, from recorded images that Anson Samuels (Jim True-Frost) gives him, that Thaddeus (Andre Royo) "stops halfway through the andante, doesn't even touch the presto." Niccolò Paganini's (from Greek νίκη, "victory" and λαός, "people" and Italian paganini, "little pagans") original manuscript herds the Paganini 24 Caprices into three equal-time, unequal-size parts. The original Paganini Opus 1 manuscript identifies Parts I, II and II as respectively including caprices 1 through 6, 7 through 12 and 13 through 24.

The 11th of the Paganini 24 Caprices (from Italian capriccio, "fright") joins physical evidence against a ladykiller whose journey over subway platforms jars Thaddeus' musical judgment.

Each one of the Paganini 24 Caprices for Solo Violin (from Italian 24 Capricci per violino solo) kindles knowledge of virtuoso (from Latin virtuōsus, "skillful") techniques.

The Paganini 24 Caprices list two numbers for violin solos in C major: capriccio no 11 in do maggiore and capriccio no 18 in do maggiore. Caprice no 18 in C major memorializes the master violinist whose father, a poor Genoese shopkeeper, managed his son's mastering the mandolin and other stringed instruments. Perhaps childhood poverty nudged the master bassoonist, cellist, guitarist, mandolinist, violinist and violist toward nursing his four gut-made strings all the way to the last G-string.

Only the 18th, not the 11th, of the Paganini 24 Caprices offered opportunities for operating with four, then three, then two, then one old, overworn strings.

The 11th of the Paganini 24 Caprices presents .70-gauge E-strings twisted 45 degrees, .88-gauge A-strings and .116-gauge D-strings twisted 80 degrees and A-strings silver-wired as G-strings.

The 11th of the Paganini 24 Caprices queues up all four strings onto its quintessentially quieter andante (literally "going [slowly]") and quicker presto (literally "nimble") sections. Flexibly long fingers, large hands and supple joints realize the 11th's notation and tempo ("time") ranges and the 18th's running through three of four worn-out strings. The 11th snails or, never swifter than the 18th's corrente ("running") and allegro ("joyous") sections, speeds through left-handed plucking and right-handed bowing all or several strings.

Perhaps the 11th of the Paganini 24 Caprices thins subway-platform tips less than the 18th, whose traditional treatment trims all but one tired string on stage.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) separately investigate cases that end up being solved as one case in CBS Elementary's Déjà Vu All Over Again (season 1 episode 18): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook March 12, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

pencil portrait of violinist Niccolò Paganini, drawn in 1819 by French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (Aug. 29, 1780-Jan. 14, 1867); Louvre Museum, Paris, France: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NiccoloPaganini.jpeg

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) separately investigate cases that end up being solved as one case in CBS Elementary's Déjà Vu All Over Again (season 1 episode 18): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook March 12, 2013, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/231371710321281

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