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, from 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.  ornamentation as written with additional acciaccaturas should be performed. A minimum of three position changes or as required should be incorporated into the programme. All should be clearly marked on the examiner’s copy. Contemporary set items are listed from 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)

Pieces marked 🕮 can be found in the book The Scottish Violinist (Taigh na Teud)

Group A — Slow Air, March, Strathspey and Reel
1a. Back to the Hills 🕮
1b. Balmoral Castle (with all variations), The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
1c. The Marquis of Huntly’s Farewell, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
1d. The Hurricane 🕮
2a. Ossian 📚
2b. King Robert the Bruce, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
2c. Athole Brose, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
2d. The Deil amang the Tailors (with all variations) 🕮
3a. The Valley of Silence 📚
3b. Millbank Cottage Ceol na Fidhle, The Fiddle Music of the Scottish Highlands vols. 1 & 2 (Taigh na Teud)
3c. Pittengardener’s Rant, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
3d. The Devil and the Dirk, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
4a. Sir William Wallace, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
4b. MacPherson’s Blade 🕮
4c. William Duguid Fyvie, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
4d. Dr Gordon’s Stables 🕮

Group B — Slow Strathspey, Hornpipe and Jig
1a. The Glories of ‘The Star’, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
1b. Madam Neruda, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
1c. The Marchioness of Huntly’s Favorite Jig, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
2a. The Dean Brig o’Edinburgh, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
2b. Banks, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
2c. Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston 📚
3a. J O Forbes of Course 📚
3b. Haslam’s Hornpipe, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
3c. Miss Mary Johnson’s Reel, A Fiddler’s Book of Scottish Jigs (Hardie)
4a. The Shakins o’the Pocky, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
4b. Madame Vanoni, The Caledonian Companion (Hardie)
4c. Mrs John Clark’s Delight, A Fiddler’s Book of Scottish Jigs (Hardie)

Group C — Set by a given composer

Composer — Gideon Stove:
1a. Gossip (Strathspey), The Shetland Violinist vol. 1 [ed. Stove] (Shetland Times)
1b. Jubilee (Hornpipe), The Shetland Violinist vol. 1 [ed. Stove] (Shetland Times)
1c. Da Bixtor Boys (Reel), The Shetland Violinist vol. 1 [ed. Stove] (Shetland Times)
1d. Da Bonxie (Reel), The Shetland Violinist vol. 1 [ed. Stove] (Shetland Times)

Composer — J Scott Skinner:
2a. Mrs Scott Skinner (Slow strathspey) 📚
2b. Mathematician (Hornpipe) 📚
2c. Frank Gilruth (Hornpipe) 📚
2d. Gladstone (Reel) 📚v

Composer — William Marshall:
3a. Mrs Major L Stewart of the Island of Java (Air) 📚
3b. Craigellachie Brig (Strathspey) 📚
3c. Miss Cameron of Balvenie (Reel) 📚
3d Mrs Fraser of Cullen (Reel) 📚

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