Theme from “Schindler’s List”

Composer

John Williams

Key

D minor and A minor

Nationality

American


Time Signature

3/4

Stylistic Period

Level

7

LISTING

Annotation

Range: G3-A6

Tempo: Slowly

Left Hand

  • Fingered melodic 5ths – 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th position
  • Significant upper position work in 5th, 6th and 7th positions
  • B minor chord arpeggiated 7 note slur
  • A2 minor chord descending run in 32nd notes
  • A minor scale run from G6-E4 

Bowing

  • Legato detaché
  • Detaché louré

Rhythm

  • Septuplet arpeggios
  • 32nd note arpeggios and runs
*This piece requires emotional maturity and understanding both musically, but also emotionally due to the topic of the film for which this music is from. This is a technical skill that is required for all pieces in advanced levels, but is challenging to quantify and specify in writing. So we assume this skill is developing and developed at this level. 
 

 

Recordings

Violin and Piano
Violin and Orchestra
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look inside Three Pieces From "Schindler's List" Violin and Piano. By Itzhak Perlman. By John Williams. John Williams Signature Edition - Strings. Movies. Set of performance parts (Includes separate pull-out violin part). With solo part and piano accompaniment. 20 pages. Published by MCA (HL.849954).
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