Orchestral Excerpt List

Violin
This booklet contains excerpts of varying standards. Please
pick the excerpt(s) you are most comfortable with and prepare
to the best of your ability.

If you are preparing for entry into Junior Orchestra then please
play ONE excerpt.

If you are preparing for entry into Senior or Symphony

Orchestra then please play TWO excerpts.

We would encourage you to play these excerpts to your tutor

prior to your audition.

Reproduced for NYOS Audition Purposes Only

 Orchestral Excerpts – Violin

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 - Excerpts from 3rd and 4th Mvt.
Please prepare both excerpts
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For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Brahms: Symphony No. 3 - 1st Mvt., Bars 1-23

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 - 2nd Mvt., Bars 53-88

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For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture - Excerpt

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - 1st Mvt., Figure A

 Orchestral Excerpts – Violin

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - Act 1, No. 2, Valse, Figure 9-11
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For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - 2nd Mvt., Bars 146-157
(2nd violin); please prepare the top line

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - 1st Mvt., Bars 439-460

 Orchestral Excerpts – Violin

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Opening-Figure C
 Orchestral Excerpts – Violin

For NYOS Audition Purposes Only

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 - 2nd Mvt., opening-Figure C

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - 2nd Mvt., Bars 146-157

(1st violin)