The repertoire strikes a balance between a radical redesign and a recognisable structure, adhering to four key principles: championing ethnically diverse composers, representing genders, acknowledging the history and tradition of violin pedagogy, and enabling students to feel comfortable studying music in a popular and classical environment.
RSL are renowned for their market-leading Rockschool examinations and comprehensive grade books. The RSL Classical Violin syllabus books are beautifully presented, each containing everything that a student would need to prepare for their RSL exam: ten repertoire pieces drawn from a diverse selection of composers, technical exercises, and examples of supporting tests including sight-reading (or optional improvisation & interpretation tests), ear tests and general musicianship questions.
Songlist:
A Dragon Flies [Stephen Montague]
Solveigs Sang’, from ‘Peer Gynt Suite’, arr. Blackwell [Grieg]
The Deserted Garden [Florence Price]
Sonata in A Major, Op.5, No.2, RV 30, Preludio/Gavotta [Vivaldi]
Three Compositions, Op.40, ‘La Captive’ [Amy Beach]
Moonlight Rose [Naoko Ikeda]
Chinese Puzzle [Rebecca Clarke]
Harvest Calypso [Nikki Iles]
Blinding Lights [The Weeknd]
Willow [Taylor Swift]
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