Violin Audition Repertoire

An adjustment of audition repertoire below can be approved by faculty upon request

Music Education, Composition, Theory, and History and Literature Majors

• Prepare two major and two minor key three-octave scales with major and minor key arpeggios from Carl Flesch Scale System's section #5, memorization required. UD faculty will pick the key of scale during the audition.
• First movement of a violin concerto from the Baroque, Classical or Romantic period with cadenza (if applicable), memorization preferred but not required.

Applied Music (Performance) 

• One Etude of your choice from Kreutzer 42 Studies OR Rode 24 Caprices, memorization required.

• The first movement of a standard concerto with cadenza (if applicable), Classical or Romantic periods, memorization required.

• One work of the applicant's choice, memorization required.

Bachelor of Arts, Minor, Merit and Honors 

• Prepare one major or minor key three-octave scale with major and minor key arpeggios from Carl Flesch Scale System section #5.
• Any prepared violin solo piece of your choice, memorization not required

Applied Music (Performance)

• One Fugue from Bach's unaccompanied Sonatas, memorization required. 
• One Paganini Caprice or one showpiece  no shorter than 5 minutes of the applicant's choice, memorization required
• One movement of a standard major concerto from the Romantic or 20th century periods with a standard cadenza (if applicable), memorization required.