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Solo pieces for violin are performed violin alone or with piano accompaniment:

BAROQUE/CLASSICAL

Johann Sebastian Bach (l685-l750)

  • Ave Maria/Gounod
  • Bourree
  • Celebrated Air
  • Concerto No. l in a minor
    • Allegro moderato
    • Andante
    • Allegro Assai
  • Concerto No. 2 in E Major
    • Allegro
    • Adagio
    • Allegro Assai
  • Partita for Solo Violin in E Major
    • Preludio
    • Gavotte en Rondeau
    • Giga
  • Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

George F. Handel (l685 – l759)

  • Largo from Xerxes

Henry Purcell (Clarke) (l659-l695)

  • Trumpet Voluntary

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (l756-l79l)

  • Concerto in A Major, Adagio
  • Concerto in G Major, Allegro
  • Rondo

Johann Pachelbel (l653-l706)

  • Canon in D

Antonio Vivaldi (l675-l74l)

  • The Four Seasons, Spring
  • Concerto in G Major, Allegro

ROMANTIC/FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST


Ludwig Beethoven (l770-l827)

  • Romance in F

Johannes Brahms (l833-l897)

  • Hungarian Dance No. 2
  • Hungarian Dance No. 5

Claude Debussy (l862-l9l8)

  • Beau Soir (Beautiful Evening)
  • Clair De Lune (Moonlight)
  • La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (Girl With The Flaxen Hair)
  • La Plus Que Lente

Antonin Dvorak (l84l-l904)

  • Humoreske
  • Songs My Mother Taught Me

Edward Elgar (l857-l934)

  • Salut d’ Amour (Greeting of Love)

Gabriel Faure (l845-l924)

  • Berceuse (Lullaby)

Christoph Gluck (l7l4-l787)

  • Melodie

Pietro Mascagni (l863-l945)

  • Intermezzo (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Jules Massenet (l842-l9l2)

  • Meditation

Felix Mendelssohn (l809-l847)

  • Wedding March

Vittorio Monti (l868-l922)

  • Csardas

Modest Mussorgsky (l839-l88l)

  • Hopak

Ottokar Novacek (l866-l900)

  • Moto Perpetuo
 

Niccolo Paganini (l782-l840)     

  • Sonata No. l2

Sergio Rachmaninov (l873-l943)

  • Daisies

Camille Saint Seans (l835-l92l)

  • Le Cygne (The Swan)
  • Rondo Capriccioso

Pablo de Sarasate (l844-l908)

  • Romanza Andaluza

Franz Schubert (l797-l828)

  • Ave Maria
  • Ballet Music
  • The Bee

Robert Schumann (l8l0-l856)

  • Traumeri (Dreams)

Piotr I.Tchaikovsky (l840-l893)

  • Andante Cantabile

Richard Wagner (l8l3-l883)

  • Bridal Chorus

Henryk Wieniawski (l835-l880)

  • Polonaise
  • Romance from Concerto No. 2
  • Sautille

FRITZ KREISLER MUSIC OF VIENNA


Fritz Kreisler (l875-l962)

  • Ballet Music/Schubert
  • Humoreske/Dvorak
  • La Folia Variations
  • Liebesfreud (Love’s Joy)
  • Liebeslied (Love’s Sorrow)
  • Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
  • Midnight Bells/Heuberger
  • Poupee Valsante (Dancing Doll)
  • Recitative and Scherzo
  • Rondino
  • Rondo/Mozart
  • Scherzo/Dittersdorf
  • Schon Rosmarin (Fair Rosmarin)
  • Song of India

CONTEMPORARY


Bela Bartok (l88l-l945)

  • Roumanian Folk Dances

George Gershwin (l898-l937)

  • It Ain’t Necessarily So
  • Prelude


Jazz violin pieces are performed solo or with string bass accompaniment:

JAZZ/SWING

Vassar Clements (l928-2005)

  • Corina, Corina
  • Paddy On The Turnpike

Stephane Grappelli (l908-l997)

Arrangements:

  • Ain’t Misbehavin’/Waller,Brooks,Razaf
  • Shine/Mack, Brown and Dabney
  • Walkin’My Baby/Turk and Ahlert

Joe Venuti (l899-l978)

Arrangements:

  • I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face/Lerner and Lowe
  • I’ll Never Be The Same/ Kahn, Malneck, Signorelli
  • Some Of These Days/Brooks
  • Summertime/Gershwin
  • Sweet Georgia Brown/Bernie, Pinkard, Casey
  • Undecided/Shavers and Robin

Stuff Smith (l909-l967)

  • Oh, But It Is

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