Violin Performance Major - MU 4351 – Requirements

Prepared by Jean “Rudy” Perrault Director of Orchestras / Professor Violin & Viola

 Advanced Standing (minimum requirements)


Scales
All major and minor scales. 3 octaves in 1/16th notes at ¼ note = 120

Fingering chosen from the following Scale Books
O. Sevcik Scale Studies
H. Schradieck Scale Studies
C. Flesch Scale Studies
J. Hrimaly Scale Studies

Etude Book (selected studies from the following books)

O. Sevcik – Preparatory Exercises in Double-Stop, Op.9

N. Paganini – 24 Caprices for the Violin, Op.1

R. Kreutzer – 42 Studies for the Violin

P. Rodé – 24 Caprices for the Violin

P. Gaviniès – 24 Etudes for the Violin – Matinées

J. Dont – 24 Etudes and Caprices for the Violin, Op.35

C. Dancla – School of Velocity – Mechanism, Op.74

 
Solo & Concert Pieces (Concert piece or concerto from the following repertoire list – or equivalent)
Saint Saëns – Havanaise
Bach 6 Sonatas & Partitas (2 contrasting movements)
Beethoven Violin Concerto (movement I or III)
Saint Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Bruch Violin Concerto in g (movements I or III)
Conus Violin Concerto in e
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e minor (movements I or III)
Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto #4 in d minor
Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto #5
Sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Franck, Schubert

Orchestral Excerpts (3 or more excerpts chosen from the following list)
Strauss – Don Juan (1st page)
Mendelssohn – Midsummer Night’s Dream (Overture & Scherzo)
Brahms – Symphony #1 (Movement 1 – 1st page)
Brahms – Symphony #4 (Movement 3 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Brahms – Symphony #2 (Movement 1 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Mozart – Symphony #39 (Movements 1, 2 & 4 – as in Orchestral Excerpts)
Schumann – Symphony #2 (Scherzo)
Prokofieff – Classical Symphony (All movements)
Mozart – Symphony #40 (Movements 1 & 4 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Beethoven – Symphony #4 (Movement 4 – as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)
Shostakovich – Symphony #5 (Movements 1 & 4)
Schubert – Symphony #2 (Movements 1– as indicated in Orchestral Excerpts)