Council for Higher Education in Music

VIOLIN

Technical Skills:
(to be developed over the Freshman and Sophomore Years) Major and minor scales 2 and 3 octaves, arpeggios, détaché, martelé, legato, and mixed bowings. 

Exercises/Studies:
(Freshman Year) Wohlfahrt, Kayser, Mazas Whistler, Corelli, dall Abaco sonatas.
(Sophomore Year) Whistler double-stop studies, etudes by Kayser, Mazas, Whistler, Kreutzer.

Repertoire:
(Freshman Year) Concertos by Seitz, Vivaldi.
(Sophomore Year) Sonatas and concertos of the Baroque period.  Works comparable to the above.