SLLECTED PIANO EXAM PIECES ruII & 2OI2 GRATE 2

ABRSM Piano exams

PiecesThis album contains nine pieces from ABRSM's 2011 &2012 Piano syllabus. In the exam, candidates

must play three pieces, one chosen from each of the three syllabus lists (A, B and C). Candidates are

free to choose from the pieces printed in this album and/or from the other pieces set for the grade a

ftrll list is given on the opposite page as well as in the 2011 & 2012 syllabus booklet. All the pieces are

valid from I |anuary 2011 until 31 December 2012, with a permitted overlap into 2013 as follours:

UK & Republic of lreland- until the end of Period A (spring exams) 2013

All other countries- until3l December 2013

The pieces in this album have been taken from a variety of different sources. \,Vhere appropriatg the

pieces have been checked with original source material and edited to help the player when prepariry

for performance. Ornament realizations have been added by the editor, as have metronome maftshown within square brackets. rvVhere necessary the fingering has been amended by the editor to

ensure a consistent approach within the a1bum. Details of other editorial amendments or suggestkm

are given in the footnotes. Fingering and all editorial additions are for guidance only; they are notcomprehensive or obligatory.

0ther requirementsScales, arpeggios and broken chords

The following requirements are reproduced from the 2011 & 2Ol2Piano syllabus. For further details,

see also p. 6 of the syllabus booklet.

Scales (similar motion)G, D,A, F majorsE, D, G minors

(melodic or harmonic at candidate'schoice)

Contrary-motion scalesC, E majors

Chromatic scalebeginning on D

ArpeggiosG, D, A majorsD, G minors

Broken chordsF majorE minor

hands together and separately 2 octaves

hands beginning on the key-note (unison) 2 octaves

hands separately

hands separately

hands separately, as pattem below:

I octave

2 octaves

2 octaves

Sight-reading (see 2011 & 2012 Piano syllabus)

Aura[ tests (see 2011 &2OLZ Piano syllabus)

ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT INFORMATION

\Mhen planning an exam entry it is important to refer to the following publications:. the current Piano syllabus (ZDll &2012). the current Examination Information & Regulnrlons (published annually). These Music Exnms (containing practical advice for candidates, teachers and parents)

These contain information on all aspects of the exrun, from entry details to performance

requirements such as the observance of repeats. All three publications are available free of charge

from music retailers and as downloads from www.abrsm.org/exams.

Grade

30119 025 368 9S

Date of exam

ContentsEditor for ABRSM: Richard Jones

LIST A

I Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) Suite de la r6jouissance (Gavotte en rondeau): fromPremier liure de pidces de clauecin

2 Pauline Hall, based on IosephHaydn (tZZ2-1809) Military Minuet3 Iohann Krieger (165r-1735) Bourr6e: from sechs musicalische partien

LIST B

1 IsaakBerkovich (1902-72) Mazurka

2 |ohannes Brahms (1S33-97) The Sandman: No.4 from Vollcs-Kinderlieder,WoO 31,

arr. Franklin Pike

3 Franz Schubert (1797-IBZB) Trio from Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D. 485, third movement,

arr. MartinWhite

LIST C

I Iohn Kember Bah-ba-doo bah: No. I fromJazz Piano Studies I2 Timothy Salter Cat being bold at first

3 Trad. American Dovrm by the Riverside, arr. Tim Richards

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LIST A

4 Hummel DialogueTaquin. No. 17 fromVennaClassic (Biirenreiter)

5 Petzold Menuet[II] inGminor(withnoD.C.toMenuetI),BWVAnh. llll5.TheAnnaMagdalenaBachBookof I72S(ABRSM) or pp. 47-48 from Baroque Keyboard, Pieces, Book I (ABRSM)

6 Vaughan Williams T\ryo-Part hrvention in G: No. 6 from A Lixle Pinno Book (O[JP)

LIST B

4 Duvernoy Andantino, Op. 176 No. 15. More Romantic Pieces for Fiano, Book 1 (ABRSM)

5 Gurlitt Gavotte in A minor. No. I from Romantic Piano Anthology 1(Schott/MDS)

t 6 Tchaikovsky Waltz (from The Sleeping Beauty). Pinnoworks Collection 7, arr. Bullard (OUP)

LIST C

4 EliasDavidsson Men's Dance: from The Gifi ofMusic(Spartan press)

5 Ianina Gar.6cia In the Train: from Miniatures for piano, Op. 5 (p\MM/MDS)6 Christopher Norton Cloudy Day: No. 9 from Miuojazz Collection 2 (Boosey & Hawkes/MDS)

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Suite de lardiouissance Continuation of the Rejoicing; Premierlivre de pilces de clavecin First Book of Pieces for the Harpsichord

The French composer Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) was very precocious as a child, holding organist's posts in Paris from the age of 12. In1739 he was appointed organiste du rol (organist to the kin$. He was widely regarded as the flnest French keyboard player of his generation.

Daquin's Premier liure de pibces de clauecin is made up of four suites. The Gavotte en rondeau printed here is the last movement from thefourth suite, most of which consists of a diuertissemen (entertainment) celebrating the pleasures of hunting. This gavotte is entitled'Continuation of the Rejoicingl as it immediately follows a movement in which the hunters are depicted rejoicing over the success of their sport.The piece illustrates the simplest type of rondeau form: A (rondeau theme, bb. 1-16), B (episode, bb. 17-28), A (da capo of the rondeau theme).The quavers might be ptayea in unequal pairs (roughly f] = Ib according to the French notes inigales of the period. The slur, staccatos anddlmamics are editorial suggestions only.Source: Premier liure de piices de claveciz (Paris, 1735)

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The great Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) visited Iondon nrice during the l790s There the last f2 symphonies that he composed,the so-called'London' symphonies, all received their first performance to great acctaim- Ite etghft of the 12, f.fo. friO in G of lTg4,was laterniclaramed the 'Military' Syrnphony due to the imitation of lirkish military music in the second pgvtmcnt Tte first half of the minuet givenhere uses the theme from the third movement.

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The German composer Iohann IGieger (1651-1735) was bom in Nuremberg but settled in the city of Zttau in eastern Germany, where he wasemployed as cantor (director of church music) and organist for A3 years. He published two books of keyboard music in the 1690s and is regardedas one of the best German keyboard composers of his generation

The bounde is a moderately guick dance in duple tirne - deslrite the time signature of IGieger's Bourr6e, it is preferable to think in terms of twominim fs4ts per bar. All slurs, ornaments and dynamics are editorial zuggestions only. tn the exam, the frst repeat should be played, but notthesecond.Source: fuhs mrsicali*le Parram (Nurembery f697), reprioted inDenbtiiler deutscher Tbnkurut,YoL 18 (Icipzig 191?

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The many folksong arrangements by the great German composer lohannes Brahms (1833-97) include the 15 Volks-Kinderlieder of 1857, which

he dedicated to the children of Robert and Clara Schumann. The most famous of these songs is the fourth, Sandmcinnchen (literally, 'little

sandman,), which is given here in a piano arrangement. The 'sandman' personifies the tiredness that makes children's eyes smart as bedtime

approaches. A singinf translation of the first starza (included in a volume of Brahms songs published by Peters Edition) reads:

The flow,rs have long been sleeping beneath the pale moonshine, / their tiny heads are nodding upon their stalks so fine. / The rosetree

bends her dreaming head, and shakes her petals red. / Slumber, slumber, my own sweet baby dear!

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Iohn Kember studied at Trinity cotlege of Music, tondon, and is now active as a composet teacher, pianist and conductor. This piece is a studyin swing rhythm: the quavers should be played in lonyshort pairs throughout, as sholvn above the fust bar.@ 2005 Faber Music Ltd, lrndonReproduced by permission of the publishers. All enquiries abour &is piece, apart from those directly relating to rhe pmms, should be addressed to FaberMusic Ltd, Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russdl stect rondonr,ttir soe.

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This piece is a piano arrangement of the well-known spiritual, a version of whose flrst verse and refrain reads:

Gonnalay down mysword and shieldDown bythe riverside,I'll studywar no more.

I ain't gonna studywar no more.

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