SLLECTED PIANO EXAM PIECES ruII & 2OI2 GRATE 2

ABRSM Piano exams

Pieces
This 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 maft
shown 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 not
comprehensive or obligatory.

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.

Scales (similar motion)

G, D,A, F majors hands together and separately 2 octaves
E, D, G minors
(melodic or harmonic at candidate's
choice)
Contrary-motion scales
C, E majors hands beginning on the key-note (unison) 2 octaves
Chromatic scale
beginning on D hands separately I octave
Arpeggios
G, D, A majors hands separately 2 octaves
D, G minors
Broken chords
F major hands separately, as pattem below: 2 octaves
E minor

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.
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Grade

Date of exam

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

2 Timothy Salter Cat being bold at first I

3 Trad. American Dovrm by the Riverside, arr. Tim Richards 10

0ther pieces for this grade

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)
t6 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. 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)

@ 1991 byTheAssociated Board of the Rqral Schools of Music

Adapted from Barque KeyfurdAi@, Book I, edited by Richard Ione (ABRSM)

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Pauline Hall
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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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Bourr6e
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Iohann Krieger

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Sechs musicalische Partien Six Musical Partitas

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.
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Volks-Kinderlieder Folksongs for Children

The many folksong arrangements by the great German composer lohannes Brahms (1833-97) include the 15 Volks-Kinderlieder
of 1857, which
of these is the fourth, Sandmcinnchen (literally, 'little
he dedicated to the children of Robert and Clara Schumann. The most famous songs
given here in piano arrangement. The 'sandman' personifies the tiredness that makes children's eyes smart as bedtime
sandman,), which is a
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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relating to the
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Trio
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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.
@ 2005 Faber Music Ltd, lrndon
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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Itmothy Salter (b. 1942, Yorkshire) studied piano with Iamar Crowson. He teaches composition and performance studies at the Royal College of
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
of ig going for the prudent option- Any accidental refers only to the note it directly precedes.
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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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