Each excerpt contains both a recommended bowing and fingering option presented above the staff, as well as other options below the staff. You can use my choices from beginning to end, or mix and match them as you need. Let the good times roll!
The following excerpts are all included in the 35 page ebook.
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 3
Mvt. 3, (m. 1-2nd ending)
Symphony No. 9
Mvt. 3, (m. 99-115)
Johannes Brahms:
Symphony No. 1
Mvt. 1: Page 1
Symphony No. 2:
Mvt. 1: (m. 18-66)
Mvt. 1: (m. 101-157)
Mvt. 2: (m.51-55)
Symphony No.4
Mvt. 1: (m.1-53)
Mvt. 1: (m. 392-End)
Mvt. 2: (m. 74-103)
Mvt. 3: (m. 1-61 or Reh. C)
Mvt. 4: (m. 33-80)
Felix Mendelssohn:
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Scherzo, (Page 1)
Symphony No. 4 “Italian”
Mvt. 1 (m. 1-110)
W.A. Mozart:
Symphony No. 39
Mvt. 1 (m.1-142)
Mvt. 2 (m. 1-53)
Mvt. 2 (m. 1-27) “Crunch-time” version
Mvt. 2 (96-125)
Mvt. 4 (m. 1-104)
Sergei Prokofiev:
Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
Mvt. 1 (m.1 until Reh. H (the G.P.)
Mvt. 2 (m.1-20 or Reh. C)
Robert Schumann:
Symphony No. 2
Mvt. 2, Scherzo (m. 1-97)
Mvt. 2, Scherzo (Coda)
Dmitri Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 5
Mvt. 1 (Reh. 32 until 2m. after Reh. 38)
Bedřich Smetana:
Overture to “The Bartered Bride”
(m.1 until 16m. after Reh A) 2nd Violin
Super Colorized Version
Richard Strauss:
Don Juan, Op. 20, Page 1
(To be read in your best info-mercial voice)
If you order now, I’ll include my 7 exercises that isolate specific issues for many of the most requested excerpts. These exercises include:
Don’t just keep practicing excerpts in the same old way, these exercises are designed to help you get the most out of your practice time. I’ve learned these great ways to practice from taking lessons from some of the best teachers in the world. Now you can have that same knowledge for free as a bonus gift for ordering the eBook.
I’ll also include an additional ebook with clean practice parts for each of these 24 excerpts. You can use this to write in the bowings or fingerings you eventually choose to use
With this eBook of bowings and fingerings and the two bonus
books of exercises and clean practice parts,
you’ll have everything you need to start preparing for your audition.
Hi, I’m Michael O’Gieblyn. I am currently a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and Huntsville (AL) Symphony Orchestra and sub with the Nashville Symphony and Louisville Orchestra. In addition to that, I live and freelance in the Nashville area and play recording sessions, musicals, tours, and of course the occasional wedding.
Auditioning for professional orchestras is my other main pursuit. I’m actively preparing excerpts in hopes of winning a larger, full time orchestra position.
The bowings and fingerings to the excerpts listed in the pages that follow come from a multitude of sources. They primarily come from the lessons I’ve personally taken with Cyrus Forough (student of David Oistrakh and Josef Gingold), Elisabeth Small (student of Dorothy Delay and Glenn Dicterow), Jun Iwasaki (Concertmaster Nashville Symphony), and Alison Gooding (Nashville Symphony). Special thanks also to colleagues Michael Jorgensen and Matthew Kiefer for sharing their personal collections of bowings and fingerings as well.
In preparing this compilation, I also researched the material available to the public including the Masterclasses on YouTube created for the 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra; William Preucil’s excerpt CD by Summit Records; and printed excerpt books by Josef Gingold, William DePasquale, and the Royal Conservatory of Music.
What I have to offer here is the result of my personal bowings and fingering choices, as well as other recommendations from the above sources.
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“This book has been a tremendous help! I got it for a class and have been using it more than I originally anticipated. This book has everything someone needs for preparing for orchestra auditions and just keeping up with hard passages. It is worth every penny spent.”
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Give “ViolinExcerpts with bowings and fingerings” a good, honest try. If it’s not working for you, tell me within 30 days of purchase and I’ll refund your money—no questions asked.
Also if you are interested in purchasing a collection of blank excerpts where you can write in your own bowings and fingerings, consider viewing my other eBook:
“Orchestral Violin Excerpts-Clean Practice Parts”
Or consider purchasing both books for $21, that way you save $2 vs buying them individually. You could buy a mute with all the money you’re saving!
