Strings Four Year Repertoires

Instructor: Jill Brindel

Instructor: Mark Wallace
 

Freshman Year

Selected etudes to boost the student's technical reserve, and one Baroque Sonata (Marcello, Eccles, etc.).
Wagner Meistersinger Overture, Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture, and Strauss Don Juan.

Sophomore Year

Study one more Baroque Sonata

A first movement of a standard concerto 
Dragonetti
Dittersdorf
Vanhall
Koussevitzky
Bottesini

Orchestral studies should now include one symphony by: 
Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms

Junior Year

• Continue scale studies from The School of Agility.
• Concert Etudes                              
• Slmandel and Rabbath.
• One Baroque sonata and two movements from a concerto

Instructor: Aaron Westman

Instructors: Gail Hernandez Rosa and Aaron Westman

Bachelor of Music in Education

Entrance:

1. 3-octave scales and arpeggios in one major key and one minor key of choice
2. A technical etude or caprice
3. First movement of a concerto, including applicable cadenza.

Freshman Year:

1. A major composition for the violin with/without piano accompaniment by one of the following composers:
   Handel, J.S. Bach, Tartini, Vivaldi, Leclair, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
2. One movement of a Classical concerto.
3. Choice of three- octaves scale and arpeggios in single stops in from the Carl Flesch Scales System;
4. An etude by Schradieck and one by Kreutze.

Sophomore Year:

1. A virtuosic showpiece best demonstrates his/her/their overall instrumental command,
2. A composition for violin with/without piano accompaniment that was written after the year 1920.
3. One movement of a Romantic concerto.
4. From the Carl Flesch Scale Systems:  a choice of 3 octave scales and arpeggios in single along with double scales patterns of thirds, sixths, and octaves in two major and minor keys of choice ;
5. An etude by Schradieck and one by Kreutzer.

Junior Year:

1. A complete major recital work from the Romantic period,
2. A complete concerto of choice.
3. Two contrasting movements of Bach unaccompanied violin work;
   One advance etude/caprice by one of these composers: Dont, Schradieck, Rode, Wieniawski, Paganini.

Senior Year (recital):

1. A major composition for the violin with/without piano accompaniment by one of the following composers: Handel, J.S. Bach, Tartini, Vivaldi, Leclair, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven 
2. A virtuosic showpiece best demonstrates his/her/their overall instrumental command;
3. A complete major recital work from the Romantic period;
4. A composition for violin with/without piano accompaniment that was written after the year 1920.

Bachelor of Music in Performance

Entrance:

1. 3 octave scales and arpeggios in one major key and one minor key of choice
2. A technical etude or caprice,
3. First movement of a concerto including applicable cadenza

Freshman:

1. Program must include a complete work for unaccompanied violin by J.S. Bach
2. One movement of a Classical concerto
3. Choice of three- octaves scale and arpeggios in single stops in from the Carl Flesch Scales System;
4. A recital work of choice.

Sophomore Year:

1. Two caprices by Paganini, or a showpiece of equivalent virtuosity.
2. One movement of a Romantic concerto.
3. From the Carl Flesch Scale Systems:  a choice of 3-octave scales and arpeggios in single along with double scales patterns of thirds, sixths, and octaves, tens in two major and minor keys of choice ;
4. A major work from standard repertoire.

Junior Year:

1. A complete sonata for violin and piano by one of these composers: Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Corigliano, Debussy, Faure, Franck, Prokofiev, Ravel, Schumann, Saint-Saens, Strauss
2. A complete Classical concerto of choice.
3. A complete Bach unaccompanied violin work;
4. A modern composition of choice.

Senior Year (recital):

1. A complete work for unaccompanied violin by J.S. Bach
2. Two caprices by Paganini, or a showpiece of equivalent virtuosity.
3. A complete sonata for violin and piano by one of these composers: Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Corigliano, Debussy, Faure, Franck, Prokofiev, Ravel, Schumann, Saint-Saens, Strauss
4. A modern composition written after 1920
    

Also: A complete Romantic or 20th Century Concerto