Encore Violin 1 (Grades 1 and 2)

Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Mattachins or Mango Walk. Footnotes provide background information, a summary of the key skills that each piece develops, and new ideas for exploring the music.
Whether you’re working through our exams, playing informally, or planning a performance, Encore Violin is full of music you’ll want to play again and again!

1. King George I’s March [Anon.]
2. Mattachins from Orchesographie (1588) [Thoinot Arbeau]
3. Ode to Joy, from Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
4. Première valse [Adam Carse]
5. Daisy Bell [Harry Dacre]
6. Fiddle Time, No. 47 from Fiddle Time Joggers [Kathy Blackwell / David Blackwell]
7. The Boat to Inverie [Edward Huws Jones]
8. Hoe Down (Little Suite No. 3) [Peter Martin]
9. Humming Song (No. 3 from Album for the Young, Op. 68) [Robert Schumann]
10. Kemp’s Jig, arr. Edward Huws Jones [Anon.]
11. Andantino in G (No. 4 from Very Easy Melodious Exercises in the First Position, Op. 2) [Edward Elgar]
12. The Honeysuckle [Antony Holborne]
13. Menuet in G, BWV Anh. II 114 [Christian Petzold]
14. Heidenroslein (Little Briar-Rose), Op. 3 No. 3, D. 257 [Franz Schubert]
15. Mango Walk: from Piece by Piece 2 [Trad. Jamaican]
16. Cossacks: No. 20 from Shooting Stars [Katherine Colledge / Hugh Colledge]
17. Gavotte and Trio (from The Fashionable Dilettante Damon) [Georg Philipp Telemann]
18. The Boys of Wexford [Trad. Irish]