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Abrsm PiaAbrsm Piano Grade 2 No Grade 2 2011 2012
Abrsm PiaAbrsm Piano Grade 2 No Grade 2 2011 2012
0ther requirements
Scales, 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.
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.
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Contents
Editor for ABRSM: Richard Jones
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LIST A
I Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) Suite de la r6jouissance (Gavotte en rondeau): from 2
Premier liure de pidces de clauecin
2 Pauline Hall, based on IosephHaydn (tZZ2-1809) Military Minuet 3
3 Iohann Krieger (165r-1735) Bourr6e: from sechs musicalische partien 4
LIST B
1 IsaakBerkovich (1902-72) Mazurka 5
2 |ohannes Brahms (1S33-97) The Sandman: No.4 from Vollcs-Kinderlieder,WoO 31, 6
arr. Franklin Pike
3 Franz Schubert (1797-IBZB) Trio from Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D. 485, third movement, 7
arr. MartinWhite
LIST C
I Iohn Kember Bah-ba-doo bah: No. I fromJazz Piano Studies I B
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)
t6 Tchaikovsky Waltz (from The Sleeping Beauty). Pinnoworks Collection 7, arr. Bullard (OUP)
LIST C
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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. In
1739 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 the
fourth 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 and
dlmamics 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 later
niclaramed the 'Military' Syrnphony due to the imitation of lirkish military music in the second pgvtmcnt Tte first half of the minuet given
here 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 was
employed as cantor (director of church music) and organist for A3 years. He published two books of keyboard music in the 1690s and is regarded
as 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 two
minim fs4ts per bar. All slurs, ornaments and dynamics are editorial zuggestions only. tn the exam, the frst repeat should be played, but not
thesecond.
Source: fuhs mrsicali*le Parram (Nurembery f697), reprioted inDenbtiiler deutscher Tbnkurut,YoL 18 (Icipzig 191?
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This piece is adapted from the trio that forms the middle section of the third movement (Menuetto) of Schubert's Fifth Symphony. Alongside the
'Trout Quintet, this symphonyis one of his earliest instrumental masterpieces, written in 1816 when he was only 19 years old. The trio is notable
not just for its lovely Schubertian melody, but for its lilting dance-like quality.
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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 study
in swing rhythm: the quavers should be played in lonyshort pairs throughout, as sholvn
above the fust bar.
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Reproduced by permission of the publishers. All enquiries abour &is piece,
apart from those directly relating to rhe pmms, should be addressed to Faber
Music Ltd, Bloomsbury House, 74-77 Great Russdl stect rondonr,ttir soe.
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Mrsic and is active as a comlrcseE conductor and pianisl About this piece, composed in 1997, he wrote: 'Cat being bold at first, thinking better
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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 shield
Down bythe riverside,
I'll studywar no more.
I ain't gonna studywar no more.
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