Guitar

Choose one piece from each group, or works of equivalent level. The suggested works below are to be considered only as guidelines:

• A movement from a work by J.S. Bach or Silvius Leopold Weiss, or a Renaissance work – for example, a composition by John Dowland, Luis de Narvaez, Francesco da Milano, or Luis de Milan
• A 19th-century work originally written for the guitar, e.g.:
  • An étude by Fernando Sor
  • One of the Minuets, op. 15 by Wenzeslaus Matiegka
  • One of the Divertimenti, op. 37 or op. 40 by Mauro Giuliani
  • Nocturne op. 4, no. 2, Andantino; Fingals-Höhle, op. 13 (Bardenklänge), no. 5a; or Romanze, op. 13, no. 10a by Johann Kaspar Mertz
  • A prelude by Heitor Villa-Lobos, or two preludes by Manuel Ponce
• Sight reading

Choose works from any three of the following categories, or works of equivalent level. The suggested works below are to be considered only as guidelines:

• A movement from a major work by J.S. Bach
• A 19th-century work originally written for the guitar, e.g.:
• Elegy, or a piece from the Bardenklänge, op.13, no. 1-11 by Johann Kaspar Mertz
  • A section of or movement from a sonata by Wenzeslaus Matiegka
  • An étude by Giulio Regondi
  • A fantasy or a movement from a sonata by Fernando Sor
  • A section of or movement from a major work by Mauro Giuliani
• An early 20th-century piece, e.g.:
  • An étude by Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Homenaje by Manuel de Falla
  • A movement from or section of a major work by Federico Moreno Tórroba, Frank Martin, Manuel Ponce, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Antonio José, Alexandre Tansman, Joaquín Rodrigo, Joaquín Turina, Maurice Ohana, Benjamin Britten, William Walton, Richard Rodney Bennett, or Lennox Berkeley
• A late 20th-century or early 21st-century work. For example, by:
  • Tōru Takemitsu, Hans Werner Henze, Elliott Carter, Per Nørgård, Joan Tower, Alberto Ginastera, Barbara Kolb, Tania León, David Del Tredici, or Peter Sculthorpe
• Sight reading

Choose one piece each from any four of the following categories, or works of equivalent level (the suggested works below are to be considered only as guidelines):

• A major work by J.S. Bach, or a fantasy by John Dowland
• A significant 19th-century work, e.g.:
  • Grand Sonata no. 1 or one of the op. 31 Sonatas by Wenzeslaus Matiegka
  • An étude by Giulio Regondi
  • Giulio Regondi Rêverie, op. 19, Fête Villageoise, op. 20, or Introduction and Caprice, op. 23
  • Hungarian Fantasy or Elegy by Johann Kaspar Mertz
  • Fernando Sor Fantaisie, op. 30, Souvenirs d’une Soirée à Berlin, op. 56, or Fantaisie Elégiaque, op. 59
• An early 20th-century work, e.g.:
  • Three études by Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Sonata by Joaquín Turina
  • Variations on “Folias d’España” or one of the sonatas by Manuel Ponce
  • Sonata by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • Nocturnal by Benjamin Britten
• A late 20th-century or early 21st-century work, e.g.:
  • Sequenza XI by Luciano Berio
  • Changes by Elliott Carter
  • Sonata for Guitar by Alberto Ginastera
  • Royal Winter Music by Hans Werner Henze
  • Sonata by Richard Rodney Bennett
  • In Memory of……. By Per Nørgård
  • All in Twilight by Tōru Takemitsu
  • Clocks by Joan Tower
  • From Kakadu by Peter Sculthorpe
• Sight Reading