Violin Teaching Repertoire

Thomas Joiner, Professor of Violin

Furman University

This list of music, while certainly not all-inclusive, provides a framework (especially for new students) to order music and begin study in a sequential pattern. Students are always encouraged to discover repertoire on their own and suggest pieces they would be excited to learn. You will not play all of this music and will start at different stages of technical development. All of this music is available and listed in the SHAR sheet music catalogue. Dr. Joiner will tell you which pieces to order.

Collections

Solos for the Violin Player (ed. Gingold, Schirmir)

37 Pieces You Like to Play (Schirmir)

Violin Pieces the Whole World Plays (ed. Wier, Embassy)

New Favorite Encore Folio (ed. Heifetz, Carl Fischer)

Etudes

Joiner- Scale Studies Booklet (available & required from Dr. Joiner)

Whistler- Preparing for Kreutzer, I & II (Rubank)

Whistler- Introducing the Positions, Vol. II , 2^nd, 4^th, 6^th positions (Rubank)

Suzuki- Position Etudes (Summy Birchard)

Mazas- Melodious & Progressive Studies, Op. 36, No. 1 & 2 (Carl Fischer)

Kreutzer- 42 Studies (ed. Galamian, International) or (ed. Singer, Carl Fischer)

Sevcik- Op. 8, Shifting the Position & Prepatory Scale Studies (ed. Mittell, G. Schirmir)

Sevcik- Op. 9, Prepatory Excercises in Double Stopping (ed. Mittell, G. Schirmir)

Tartini- The Art of Bowing (50 Variations on a Gavotte of Corelli), (ed. Winn, Carl Fischer ONLY)

Gavanies- 24 Etudes (ed. Galamian, International)

Dont- 24 Etudes and Caprices, Op. 35 (ed. Galamian, International

Paganini- 24 Caprices (ed. Berkley, G. Schirmir) or (ed. Galamian, International)

Concertos (check with Dr. Joiner regarding edition)

Bach- Concerto in A minor

Bach- Concerto in D minor (Double)

Bach- Concerto in E Major

Vivaldi- Concerto in A Minor

Vivaldi- Concerto in G minor

Vivaldi- Concertos Op. 8, No. 1-2 "The Four Seasons"

Mozart- Concerto No. 3 in G Major

Mozart- Concerto No. 4 in D Major

Mozart- Concerto No. 5 in A Major

Haydn- Concerto No. 2 in G Major

Accolay- Concerto No. 1 in A minor

Seitz- Concerto No. 3 in g minor, Op. 12

DeBeriot- Concerto No. 6, Op. 70

Lalo- Symphonie Espagnole

Kabalevsky- Concerto in C Major, 48

Bruch- Concerto No. 1 in G minor

Mendelssohn- Concerto in E minor

Wieniawski- Concerto No. 2 in D minor

Saint-Saens- Concerto No. 3 in B minor

Barber- Concerto

Sibelius- Concerto

Tchaikovsky- Concerto

Beethoven- Concerto

Brahms- Concerto

Sonatas (check with Dr. Joiner regarding edition)

Bach- 6 Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (ed. Joachim & Moser, International)

Bach- 6 Sonatas for Violin & Piano

Beethoven- 10 Sonatas

Brahms- 3 Sonatas

Vivaldi- Op. 2 Sonatas, Vol. 1 & 2

Mozart- Sonatas

Eccles- Sonata in G minor (Suzuki Bk. 8)

Schubert- 3 Sonatinas

Handel- 6 Sonatas (ed. Betti, G. Schirmir)

Ysaye- 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27

Dvorak- Sonatina

Piston- Sonata for Violin & Harpsichord

Prokofiev- Sonata in D Major, Op. 115 for Solo Violin

Franck- Sonata

Debussy- Sonata

Faure- Sonata in A Major, Op. 13

Prokofiev- Sonata No. 2 in D Major

Zwilich- Sonata in Three Movements

Misc. Works (sample listing)

Bach- Arioso

Bach- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Bach-Gounod- Ave Maria

Barber- Canzone

Bartok- Rumanian Folk Dances

Bartok- Second Rhapsody

Beach- Barcarolle

Beethoven- Romance in F, Op. 50

Brahms- Sonatensatz

De Falla- Suite of Spanish Folksongs

DeBeriot- Scene de Ballet

Debussy- Reverie

Gershwin- Porgy & Bess, trans. Heifetz

Gorecki- Variazioni

Massenet- Meditation from Thais

Monti- Csardas

Mozart- Rondo in C Major, K. 373

Mussorgsky- Hopak, arr. Rachmaninoff

Paganini- Variations on the G String "Moses"Mozart- Adagio in E Major, K. 261

Potstock- Souvenir de Sarasate

Pugnani- Allegro Entusiastico

Rachmaninoff- Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

Ravel- Tzigane

Saint-Saens- Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

Sarasate- Maleguena

Sarasate- Zigeunerweisen

Still- Suite

Stravinsky- Suite Italienne

Tartini- Sonata in G minor (NOT the Devil's Trill)

Ten Have- Allegro Brilliante, Op. 19

Vieuxtemps- Souvenir d'Amerique "Yankee Doddle"

Vitali- Chaconne

Wieniawski- Legende

Wieniawski- Polonaise Brillante

Wieniawski- Scherzo Tarantelle

Williams- Three Pieces from Schindlers List

Fritz Kreisler (pub. Charles Foley)

Aubade Provencale

Caprice Viennois

Farewell to Cucullain (Londonderry Air)

La Folia (Corelli)

Liebesfreud

Perpetual Motion (Paganini)

Praeludium and Allegro

Recitativo and Scherzo

Rondo (Mozart)

Scherzo (Tchaikovsky)

Schon Rosmarin

Sicilienne and Rigaudon

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Tambourin Chinois

Tempo di Minuetto

The Old Refrain