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Dead Chicken -
Many good points made but SSC raised one important point - what is the purpose of your score study?
If it is for the sake of learning score reading, ideally I would start with a work or section of one you like and know well. Nevertheless, I strongly suggest Bartok violin duos -- even if you don't know it well it is pretty accessible, many of the pieces are short but contain much info and you will deal with the treble clef only (goodness I think I should look at those after writing this!!).
Good recording of them has been put out by the ECM label.
Suggestions for studying the Bartok VIOLIN DUOS:
a) Listen for when accompaniment and melody interchange
b) Figure out the scale the melody used
c) If there is a canon study the intervals and where the strong and weak beats are
d) If anything intrigues or catches your ear find it and copy it from the score and play with it -- that is try to do what Bartok did or do it better!
e) Finally remember Gardener's point --- it is fine to have a very open-ended session. Sometimes following along to the best of your ability is fine. If you lose your place try to find it again.
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