Please use the links below to find the titles recommended in the Trinity College Exam Syllabus:

Trinity Scales and Arpeggios – Grades Initial to 8

Trinity Sight reading Grades 4 to 8

Trinity Aural Test books Grades 6 to 8

Candidates perform three sets of pieces, one from each group, using the listed publications. All bowing indications as marked and a full range of dynamics should be displayed. Dynamics are expected in the slow tunes and may be appropriate at the quicker tempos. rnamentation as written with additional acciaccaturas should be performed. A minimum of three position changes or as required hould be incorporated into the programme. All should be clearly marked on the examiner’s copy. Contemporary set items are listed rom slow to fast tempo, but may be performed in any order. An own composition may be played instead of one listed set.

Pieces marked 📚 can be found in the book The Fiddle Music of Scotland (Hardie)

Group A — Slow Air, March, Strathspey and Reel
1a. Chapel Keithack 📚
1b. The Conundrum Ceol na Fidhle,  The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands vols. 1 & 2 (Taigh na Teud)
1c. Glenlivet 📚
1d. The Marquis of Tullybardine 📚
2a. Miss Laura Andrew 📚
2b. The Balkan Hills Ceol na Fidhle, The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands vols. 1 & 2 (Taigh na Teud)
2c. Tullochgorum 📚
2d. The Flowers of Edinburgh (incl variation), The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
3a. Fyvie Castle, The Scottish Violinist (Taigh na Teud)
3b. McLean of Pennycross 📚
3c. Tulchan Lodge 📚
3d. The Left–Handed Fiddler 📚
4a. Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of his Second Wife 📚
4b. The Athole Highlanders’ Farewell to Loch Katrine 📚
4c. Ballochmyle Brig, The Scottish Violinist (Taigh na Teud)
4d. The £10 Fiddle 📚

Group B — Slow Strathspey, Hornpipe and Jig
1a. Mrs Garden of Troup 📚
1b. The High Level Hornpipe 📚
1c. Light and Airy 📚
2a. The Beauty of the North 📚
2b. Princess Beatrice 📚
2c. Dumfries House 📚
3a. Lady Boswell of Auchinleck 📚
3b. The Second Star Hornpipe 📚
3c. Miss Campbell of Monzie, A Fiddler’s Book of Scottish Jigs (Hardie)
4a. Mackworth 📚
4b. The Bee’s Wing Hornpipe 📚
4c. Mrs Roy of Nenthorn’s Favourite, A Fiddler’s Book of Scottish Jigs (Hardie)

Group C — Set by a given composer

Composer — Nathaniel Gow:
1a. Nathaniel Gow’s Lament for the Death of his Brother (Slow air), The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
1b. Master Francis Sitwell (Strathspey) 📚
1c. Lady Mary Ramsay (Strathspey) 📚
1d. Largo’s Fairy Dance (Tune and Variation 1) (Reel) 📚

Composer — Peter Milne:
2a. Berryden Cottage (Strathspey) 📚
2b. The Countess of Crawford (Slow strathspey) 📚
2c. The Earl of Crawford (Reel)📚
2d. Gillan’s Reel (Reel) 📚

Composer — J Scott Skinner:
3a. The Weeping Birches of Kilmorack (Air) 📚
3b. The Smith’s a Gallant Fireman (Strathspey) 📚
3c. The Auld Wheel (Reel) 📚
3d. The Bride’s Reel (Reel) 📚

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