Trinity Strings exams no longer operate with an end date. The current syllabus remains valid indefinitely, and planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance.

Please use the links below to find the titles recommended in the Trinity Violin Grade 7 syllabus from 2025:

Trinity Scales and Arpeggios Grades Initial to 8

Trinity Sight Reading Grades 4 to 8

Trinity Aural Test books Grades 6 to 8

Violin Pieces for Grade 7
Requirements for selection of pieces can be found on the Trinity website.

Group A Pieces

The pieces below can be found in Violin Exam Pieces 2025: Grade 7

4. Chatto, Marshall, Napier & Patterson, arr. Wyatt, Rather Be (Clean Bandit)

5. Coleridge-Taylor, Valse mauresque (no. 4 from Four Characteristic Waltzes , op. 22)

8. Ferraretto, Rio to Havana (with repeats)

9. Handel, Largo and Allegro (3rd and 4th movts from Sonata no. 5 in A , HWV 372)

12. Smart, Mobius Blues

13. Telemann, Allegro (from Fantasie no. 7) (with 1st repeat) (unaccomp)

14. Trad., arr. Wilson, Usti, Usti Baba

15. Trad., arr. Wood, Mrs McLeod of Raasay (with repeats)

16. Vivaldi, Allegro (1st movt from Concerto in D minor , op. 9 no. 8, RV 238)

Click The Links For The Pieces Below

1. Bach, J S, Allegro (2nd movt from Sonata no. 4 in C minor, BWV 1017), Six Sonatas vol. 2, BWV 1017-1019 (Bärenreiter)

2. Bach, J S, Gigue (from Partita no. 3 in E , BWV 1006) (unaccomp), Three Sonatas and Three Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006 (Bärenreiter)

3. Beethoven, Allegretto con variazioni: theme and variations 1, 2 & 6 (3rd movt from Sonata no. 6 in A , op. 30 no. 1), Violin Sonatas vol. 2 (Peters)

6. Corelli, Final Allegro (from Sonata in D , op. 5 no. 1), Italian Violin Music of the Baroque Era Vol. 1 (Henle)

7. Dancla, Air Varié on a Theme by Donizetti, op. 89 no. 4, Romantic Violinist (Boosey)

10. Moffat, Intrada, Intrada (Schott)

11. Mozart, Rondeau-Allegro-Rondeau (3rd movt from Sonata in Bb , K 378), Violin Sonatas Vol. 2 (Henle)

Group B Pieces

The pieces below can be found in Violin Exam Pieces 2025: Grade 7

2. Barns, L'escarpolette

3. Beach, Mazurka (no. 3 from Three Compositions , op. 40)

7. Fauré, Pièce

8. Fisher, arr. Garrick, When Sunny Gets Blue

9. Glazunov, arr. Heifetz, Méditation, op. 32

11. Moszkowski, Spanish Dance no. 2

12. Pasek & Paul, arr. Walshaw, You Will Be Found (from Dear Evan Hansen)

13. Price, Elfentanz

18. Wallen, Woogie Boogie

Click The Links For The Pieces Below

1. Andrée, Andante cantabile (2nd movt from Sonata for Violin and Piano), Sonata for Violin and Piano (Furore)

4. Cohen, arr. Andrew, Hatikvah (the Hope), Hatikvah (the Hope) (Hal Leonard)

5. Debussy, arr. Roques, La plus que lente, La plus que lente (Durand)

6. Fauré, Andante, op. 75, Anthology of Original Pieces (Peters)

10. Massenet, transc. Marsick, Méditation (from Thaïs), Méditation (from Thaïs) (UMP)

14. Pütz, Twilight Dream, Raise the Bar Violin: Grades 6-8 (Trinity)

15. Rachmaninoff, arr. York, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, 18th Variation, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, 18th Variation (Boosey)

16. Raff, Cavatina, Raise the Bar Violin: Grades 6-8 (Trinity)

17. Stravinsky, Gavotta con due Variazioni (from Suite Italienne), The Boosey & Hawkes Violin Anthology (Boosey)

19. Wilkinson, Apus or Perseus, Constellations Set 1 (Trinity)

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