Violin Audition Repertoire

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 Classical Period or Romantic period (no baroque concerto accepted), memorization required.

Applied Music Major 

• Prepare two major or 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.
• Two contrasting movements from Bach's unaccompanied sonatas and partitas, memorization required.
• First movement of a standard violin concerto from the romantic period or 20th century (no classical or baroque concertos accepted), 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

• 1 movement from a standard concerto (from memory)
• 2 contrasting movements of an unaccompanied sonata by J. S. Bach
• 1 movement from a standard Classical or Romantic sonata
• a concert show piece