2021 VCE Music Prescribed list of

notated solo works: Violin

This list must be used in conjunction with information provided in the following documents:

 VCE Music Study Design 2017–2022

 VCE Music Performance Examination Specifications and Assessment Criteria (both 2017–2022),
available via the Music Performance Units 3–4 webpage of the VCAA website
 VCE Music Investigation Examination Specifications and Assessment Criteria (both 2017–2022),
available via the Music Investigation Units 3–4 webpage of the VCAA website
 Notices to Schools and the VCAA Bulletin, both available via the webpage of the VCAA website.

An assessment report is published annually and provided on the VCAA website.

Students may not perform the same work in more than one examination across VCE Music Performance,
VCE Music Investigation and/or VCE VET Music. This rule applies for studies undertaken in the same,
previous and/or subsequent years.

Study design requirements

Music Investigation

Compliance requirements
Students must base their Investigation Topic on, and their examination program must include, one work
selected from a current VCE Music Prescribed list. The examination program must include at least four
contrasting works that relate to the Investigation Topic.

Music Performance

Compliance requirements
Students who select to perform as a soloist for Units 3 and 4 and select Violin as their instrument must
choose all solo works for Units 3 and 4, Outcome 1 from this list. All works performed in the end-of-year
performance examination must also be selected from this list or be approved as alternative works.

The program for the Music Performance end-of year performance examination for Violoncello must consist of
at least four works. The program must include at least:

 one unaccompanied work

 two works with live accompaniment. Accompaniment may be provided by piano or another instrument
appropriate to the work. Different instruments may be used to accompany different works in the program
 two works in 20th- and/or 21st-century styles.

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Sample programs
Sample programs for Music Performance are provided as advice only. The works need not be performed in
the order listed. Sample programs for Violin are provided at the end of this list.

Music Investigation and Music Performance

2021 update
 Each title listed constitutes one work.
 Editions listed are for identification purposes only. Any recognised edition is acceptable. Before using an
alternative edition, students and teachers should check that it is in fact an edition of the listed work; that
is, it is not a simplified version or an arrangement of the work.
 Students should use information provided in the music by the composer, arranger and/or an editor
appropriately. Details added to the original score by an editor, such as fingering or dynamics, may be
varied to achieve the student’s intended interpretation of the work.
 Repeats, cadenzas and tutti passages are optional. Accompanists are not required to play all bars of the
introduction or lengthy passages following the conclusion of the solo part. Ornamentations and
embellishments are encouraged in the Baroque works.
 The closing date for alternative works and alternative instrument applications is Wednesday
24 February 2021.
 The Violin list is reviewed on a regular basis. Suggestions of works for inclusion or deletion should be
sent to curriculum.vcaa@education.vic.gov.au with the subject line ‘Attention Performing Arts Manager,
Violin list’. For suggestions of works to be included on the list:
 provide a copy of the sheet music, publication details and, as appropriate, a description of the
lines/parts to be performed
 indicate in which category the work should be listed
 describe briefly why the work should be included on the list.

Categories
 Unaccompanied works in 20th- and 21st-century styles
 Unaccompanied works in Baroque, Classical, Romantic and post-Romantic styles
 Accompanied works composed in 20th- and 21st-century styles
 Accompanied works works in Baroque, Classical, Romantic and post-Romantic

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Violin
Unaccompanied works in 20th- and 21st-century styles

Composer Title Publisher

COHEN, Mary ‘Take to the Hills’ or ‘Beneath the Stars’ or ‘Slow Boat to China’ Faber Music
from Technique Flies High
EDWARDS, Ross White Cockatoo Spirit Dance Australian Music Centre
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
GREENBAUM, Life Cycles no. 2 from Occasional Pieces, or Curves on the Great Australian Music Centre
Stuart Ocean Road, no. 5 from Occasional Pieces www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
HINDEMITH, Paul Solo sonata, op. 31, no. 2, one or two movements Schott (ed. 1902)
HOLLAND, Dulcie ‘Supplication’ or ‘Agitation’ from ‘Three Humours’ in Australian Currency Press
Violin Music
PIAZOLLA, Astor Tango Etudes, no. 1 or no. 3 Henry Lemoine
PROKOFIEV, Serge Sonata for solo violin, op. 115, one or two movement/s International Music Company or Peters or
Sikorski
SCULTHORPE, Irkanda 1 Australian Music Centre:
Peter www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
YSAŸE 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, op. 27, any one movement from any Henle
one sonata

Unaccompanied works in Baroque, Classical, Romantic and post-Romantic

styles

Composer Title Publisher

BACH, JS Six solo sonatas and partitas, BWV 1001-1006, one or two Barenreiter or Henle or Peters or International
contrasting movements from any one sonata or partita Music Company
BIBER, Heinrich I.F. Passacaglia from Mystery Sonatas Any edition
FIORILLO, F Thirty-six Studies, any one of no. 13, 17, 22, or 32 International Music Company or Peters or
Stainer and Bell
KREUTZER, R Forty-two Studies, any one of no. 35, 39, or 42 Schirmer
TELEMANN, G P Twelve Fantasias for Solo Violin, any two contrasting movements Bärenreiter (2972)
from any one fantasia

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Accompanied works in 20th- and 21st-century styles

Composer Title Publisher

ACHRON, Joseph Hebrew Melody Carl Fischer
BARTÓK, Béla Rumanian Folk Dances, any three dances Universal (VE8474)
(arr. SZEKELY)
BARTÓK, Béla Sonatina 1915, both movements 1 and 2 Editio Musica Budapest
(arr. GERTLER)
BAY, Mel ‘St Louis Blues’ from Jazz Violin Solos Mel Bay Publishing
BLOCH, Ernst ‘Nigun’ from Baal Shem Carl Fischer
BRITTEN, Benjamin Any one of ‘March’ or ‘Lullaby’ or ‘Waltz’ from Suite op. 6 Boosey & Hawkes
COPLAND, Aaron Nocturne Boosey & Hawkes
DEBUSSY, Claude La Plus que Lente Durand
(ed. ROQUES)
DEBUSSY, Claude Sonata, First Movement Any edition
FALLA, Manuel de Suite Populaire Espagnole, any one movement Chester
‘Spanish Dance’ from La Vida Breve Schott (BSS31837) or Carl Fischer
GERSHWIN, George ‘Summertime’ and ‘A woman is a sometime thing’ or ‘It ain’t Chappell
(trans. HEIFETZ) necessarily so’ or ‘Bess you is my woman now’ from Porgy

and Bess
GREENBAUM, Stuart ‘How to be in the World’ or ‘For Alette’ or ‘The Lake and the Australian Music Centre
Hinterland’, no. 1, 3, 6 from Occasional Pieces www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
HILL, Alfred Sonatine op. 5, Third Movement Constantin Wild’s Verlag/AMEB Series 9
Sixth Grade
HILL, Mirrie Abinu Malkenu Australian Music Centre:
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
HINDSON, Matthew Repetepetetion Faber Music or AMEB Series 9 Seventh Grade
HOLLAND, Dulcie Peter-Paul Australian Music Centre:
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
JOPLIN, Scott Six Ragtimes for Violin, arr. PERLMAN, Itzak, any of ‘Elite Schirmer
Syncopations’ , ‘The Entertainer’, ‘The Ragtime Dance’ or
‘The Strenuous Life’ 
KABALEVSKY, Dmitri Violin concerto, op. 48, movement no. 1 only Peters
Rondo, op. 69 Boosey & Hawkes or Sikorski
KATS-CHERNIN, Elena ‘Birthday Rag’ or ‘Nostalgic Rag’ or ‘Russian Rag’ from Boosey and Hawkes or Australian Music Centre
After Dinner Music www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
KRAEMER, Timothy Cossack Dance Faber Music, or Series 7, Grade 5 AMEB
and Natasha
KROLL, William Banjo and Fiddle Schirmer, or any edition
LEHMANN, Wilfred ‘Soliloquy, a fragment’ from String Quartet no. 2 Australian Music Centre:
www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
MARTINU, Bohuslav Five madrigal stanzas for violin and piano, any one Schirmer

Impromptu, to be played in its entirety Editio Supraphon Praha or Barenreiter

O’CONNOR, Mark Fiddle Concerto, any one movement www.markoconnor.com
POULENC, Francis Mouvements Perpetuals Carl Fischer (B2242)
(arr. HEIFETZ)

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PROKOFIEV, Sergei Five melodies, op. 35, any two Boosey & Hawkes (17436)
PROKOFIEV, Sergei ‘March’ from Love for Three Oranges Carl Fischer
(arr. HEIFETZ)
RADANOVICS, Michael The Dance of the Moonchild UE or AMEB Series 9 Fifth Grade
RAVEL, Maurice Sonata, Second Movement Any edition
SUTHERLAND, Sonatina, movements 1 and 2, or 2 and 3 in Australian Currency Press
Margaret Violin Music
SHOSTAKOVICH, Elegie Boosey & Hawkes or AMEB Series 7, Grade 6
Dmitri
STRAVINSKY, Igor Ballad from La Baiser de la Fée Boosey & Hawkes
Pastorale Schott
Suite Italienne, movements 1 and 2 or no. 3 Boosey & Hawkes
SZYMANOWSKI, Karol Chant de Roxane Universal Edition
SZYMANOWSKI, Karol Romance in D, op. 23 Universal

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Accompanied works in Baroque, Classical, Romantic and post-Romantic

styles
Note: The performance of cadenzas in concerti is optional.

Baroque

Composer Title Publisher

BACH, J S Concerto no.1 in A minor, BWV 1041, any one movement Barenreiter
Concerto no.2 in E major, BWV 1042, any one movement Breitkopf or International Music Company or
Peters (EP4593)
Six sonatas for violin and keyboard, BWV 1014-9, any of no. 1, Any edition
2, 3, 6, one or two contrasting movements from any one sonata
CORELLI, Arcangelo Sonatas, op. 5, any one of no. 3, 4, 7 or 9, any two contrasting Schott or International Music Company
movements from one sonata
HANDEL, G F Sonatas, movements 1 and 2 of any one sonata International Music Company or Schott (Band 1)
LECLAIR, Jean Sonata no.3 in D major, both Sarabande and Tambourin Schirmer
Marie
(ed. LICHTENBERG)
TARTINI, Guiseppi Sonata in G minor, Didone Abbandonata, op. 1, no. 10, Peters 1099B
movement no. 1 or no. 3 and 4
VERACINI, F M Sonata in E minor, Concert Sonata, both the ‘Ritornello’ and Peters (4345) or International Music Company
(ed. LENZEWSKI) ‘Allegro con fuoco’ op.2 no. 8 (Sonata Accademica)
VIVALDI, Antonio Concerto in E major (La Primavera), op. 8, no. 1 from The Four Peters or Barenreiter
Seasons, movement no. 1 only
Concerto in G minor (L’Estate), op. 8, no. 2 from The Four Any edition
Seasons, movement no. 1 only
Concerto in F minor (L’Inverno), op. 8, no. 4, from The Four Any edition
Seasons, movement no. 1 only
Concerto in G minor, op. 12, no. 1, movement no. 1 only Schott or International Music Company
(ed. Galamian)

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Classical

Composer Title Publisher

BEETHOVEN, L. van Romance in G major, op. 40 Peters (arr. OISTRACH/FECHNER) or Breitkopf
or International Music Company or Henle
Romance in F major, op. 50 Peters (arr. OISTRACH/FECHNER) or Breitkopf
or International Music Company or Henle
Sonata in F major (Spring), op. 24, no. 5, movement 1 or 4 Henle or Peters
Sonata in G major, op. 30 no. 3, last movement only Henle or Peters, vol. 2
Sonata in D major, op. 12, no. 1, first movement Henle or Peters, vol. 1
HAYDN, J Concerto no. 2 in G major, Hob. VIIa: 4, movement no. 1 or Henle or Breitkopf
movement nos 2 and 3
MOZART, WA Concerto, movement no. 1 from any concerto Peters, Barenreiter, International Music Company
or Breitkopf
SCHUBERT, Franz Three Sonatinas, op. 137, D384, 385 and 408, first or last Peters or Breitkopf or Wiener/Urtext or Schott
movement from any of the sonatinas

Romantic and post-Romantic

Composer Title Publisher

BARTÓK, Béla Andante Editio Musica Budapest Z.8961
BOHM, Carl Bolero Simrock
BRAHMS, J Hungarian Dance no. 2 Stainer & Bell or Simrock
(arr. HUBAY or
Joachim)
BRAHMS, J Sonatensatz (scherzo), Wo 02/op. posthumous Henle Verlag or Breitkopf or International
Music Company
DANCLA, Charles Any one of 6 Airs & Variations op. 89 Carl Fischer L125
DEBUSSY, Claude ‘La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin’ from Preludes Book I Durand, or Series 7 AMEB
(ed. HARTMANN)
DVORAK, Antonin Romantic Pieces, op. 75, any two pieces of nos 1, 2, 3, or 4 Barenreiter Edition Supraphone Lengnick,
(H19033) or Simrock
ELGAR, E Chanson de Matin, op. 15, no. 2 Novello
Chanson de Nuit, op. 15, no. 1 Novello
GRANADOS, Enrique Danse Espagnole Schott
(arr. KREISLER)
KREISLER, Fritz Sicilienne and Rigaudon in the Style of Francoeur Foley from Carl Fischer (F1057) or Schott
MASSENET, J Meditation from Thaïs Fischer
(arr. MARSICK)
MENDELSSOHN, Felix Concerto in E minor, op. 64, movement no. 2 only Breitkopf or Peters
MONTI, Vittorio Czárdás G Ricordi
PUGNANI, Gaeto Praeludium and allegro Schott
(arr. KREISLER)
RAVEL, Maurice Pièce en Forme de Habanera Alphonse Leduc
SARASATE, Pablo de Malaguena, op. 21, no. 1 International Music Company, 898 or Simrock
Spanish dance no. 5 (Playera), op. 23 International Music Company, 1972
Romanza Andaluza, op. 22, no. 1 International Music Company

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SMETANA, Bedrich From the Homeland, No. 2 Andantino Peters

SUK, Joseph Four pieces, op. 17, any one piece Simrock or Lengnick
TCHAIKOVSKY, P Melodie, op. 42, no. 3 Faber Music
VIOTTI, Giovanni Concerto no. 22 in A minor, movement no. 3 only International Music Company or Schirmer or
Battista Fischer
WIENIAWSKI, Henri Concerto in D minor, op. 22, no. 2, slow movement only International Music Company or Schott
Legende Schirmer or Billaudot
WIENIAWSKI, Henri Obertass, Op. 19 No. 1 Any edition

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Sample programs
Program 1
HANDEL, GF Sonata in F Major, movements 1 and 2 Accompanied, Baroque
DANCLA, Charles Air Varie op. 89 no. 5 Accompanied, , Romantic
COHEN, Mary ‘Take to the Hills’ from Technique Flies High Unaccompanied, 20/21
HILL, Alfred Sonatine, third movement Accompanied, 20/21
KRAEMER, Timothy and Cossack Dance Accompanied, 20/21
Natasha

Program 2
BACH, JS Concerto in A minor, first movement Accompanied, Baroque
SCHUBERT, Franz Sonatina op. 137, first movement Accompanied, Classical
ELGAR, Edward Chanson de Nuit Accompanied, Romantic
HOLLAND, Dulcie ‘Supplication’ or ‘Agitation’ from ‘Three Humours’ Unaccompanied, 20/21
in Australian Violin Music
BARTOK, Bela Rumanian Folk Dances, Dances 1, 4 and 6 Accompanied, 20/21

Program 3
VIVALDI, A Winter Concerto, first movement Accompanied, Baroque
SARASATE, Pablo de Romanza Andaluza Accompanied, Romantic
EDWARDS, Ross White Cockatoo Spirit Dance Unaccompanied, 20/21
BRAHMS, J Sonatensatz Accompanied, Romantic
KROLL, William Banjo and Fiddle Accompanied, 20/21

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