ABRSM Violin exams ‘This album is valid for exams from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2019. Advance notice ofany planned changes to the Violin requirements from 2020 (including syllabus overlap information) will be available online at www.abrsm.org/ violin3 from January 2019. Pieces (90 marks) This album contains nine pieces from ABRSM’s 2016-2019 Grade 3 Violin 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 full list is given on the opposite page. ‘The pieces in this album have been taken from a variety of different sources, Where appropriate, they have been checked with original source material and edited to help the player when preparing for performance. The fingering and bowing have been amended ‘where necessary to ensure a consistent approach within the album. Ornament realizations have been added, as have metronome marks shown within square brackets. Details of other editorial amendments or suggestions are given in the footnotes. Fingering, bowing and all editorial additions are for guidance only; they are not comprehensive or obligatory. Other requirements see syllabus for full details Scales and arpeggios from memory (21 marks) range bang pues ‘hn pater 5 see ee Ai, Ea oct, separate bows andsurred even notes olny ton Bs, Dimajors: A, Dninors 2oce “Gquaersioahow)—atcandhdate's choice nna barrio adi ‘candidates chai | Arpeasion bos Enajors oct, separstcbovs andshurred eve Bs Dingo, A zoe “(notes to bow) Chromatic sete Sating on D oct, separate ove even notes Sight-reading (21 marks) Aural tests (18 marks) (Total available: 150 marks) Taking the exam Exam regulations and full syllabus details — including scale speeds and descriptions of sight-reading and aural tests ~are available online at www.abrsm.org/violin3.Violin Exam Pieces Name ABRSM Grade 3 Selected from the 2016-2019 syllabus Date of exam Contents page UST A 1 attrib, Henry VIII Pastime with good company, arr. Edward Huws Jones 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Polonaise: No. 4 from 12 Duos, K. 487, art. Watson Forbes 3 Georg Philipp Telemann Presto: third movement from Sonatina No.6 in F, TWV 41:F usTs 1 Harold Arlen and Edgar Yipsel Harburg Over the Rainbow: from The Wizard of Oz, 5 arr, Barnes Music Engraving 2 Nicola Paganini Theme and Variation: from 24 Caprices, Op.1, arr. Christiane Bornemann 6 3° Trad.Irish The Lark in the Clear Air, arr.T. C. Kelly 7 ustc 1 Trad. American Pig Ankle Rag (solo), arr. Pete Cooper 2 Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim America: from West Side Story, arr. Jerry Lanning 9 3 Trad. French The Folk from the Mountain, arr. Edward Huws Jones 10 Violin consultant: Philippa Bunting Footnotes: Richard Jones [RJ] and Anthony Burton Other pieces for Grade 3 LsTA 4 J.S.Bach Gavotte I fom Gavotte in D). No.6 from Suzuki Violin School, Vol 3 (Alfred-Summy-Birchard) 5 F.Duval Un peu gay No.3 from My First Concert for Violin art. Mohs (Schott) 6 Handel Bourrée: No. 11 from The Young Violinst's Repertoire, Book 4, arr. de Keyser and Waterman (Faber) uss 4 Neil Mackay German Folk Song and Swiss Air from A Tuneful Introduction to the Third Postion (Stainet & Bell) 3 Monluszko Baika. No.3 from The Young Violinist’s Repertoire, Book 4, art. de Keyser and Waterman (Faber) 6 J. Strauss Il The Beautiful Blue Danube (violin melody (omitting DC). from The Viennese Fiddler, art. Huws Jones (Boosey & Hawkes) uste 4 Roy McCormack Louis: No. 10 from Ler’ Swing for Violin (Spartan Press) 5 Monty Norman James Bond Theme, James Bond 007 Collection for Violin, art Galiford, Neuburg and Edmondson (Alfred) 6 Ros Stephen Tango in San Telmo or African Jamboree: No.7 or No. 12 from Violin Globerroters (OUP) Fest published n 2015 by ABRSM (Publishing Lx, Unauthorted photocopying i gal Mase orgnton by Ande ones ‘wha owned subsidiary of ABRSM,24 Portland Alright reserved. No part of tuspubliation Cover by Kae Benjamin Any Pots Face London WiB ILU, United King ‘nay bereproducedreorded or nsmited Pied England by Cllgaving Ld {©2015 by The Asociated Board of the Raya ‘any form or byany means vito the Thetford Nok Schools Mase Prlor permission ofthe copyight ownerica unauthorized copies of this attrib. Henry Vill (1491-1547), Pastime with good company Arranged by Edward Huws Jones ———$— nf mp = 3 Second verse divisions 3 i. ac f uf ——— 7 Scone his song, originally for three voices, has survived in a manuscri ther pieces in the same collection, It is ascribed to the Kin, ipt compiled around 1518 at the court ofthe English King Henry Vil. Like many ig himself, keen music-lover who is known to have been a composer. Hen, still the time, probably also wrote the carefree words, which begin: Pastime with good company Hove and shall untill die his arrangement includes a second verse with violin ‘divisions, or decoratv nprovised. Although the o ve variation, of the kind that a performer atthe time might have inal metronome mark is d= 100, a more relaxed tempo of d= 84 would be aceeptable in the exam, Copyright 2000 by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Led produced by permission of Roosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ld. All enguitles about essed to Boosey & Havekes Music Publishers Lid, Akdwyeh House 71 ls piece. apart from those directly relating to the exams, should be -81 Ald, Landon WC2R AHN AB 3781Polonaise No. 4 from 12 Duos, K. 487 Arranged by Watson Forbes W.A. Mozart (1756-91) Allegretto «= 80 a 4 9D af con spirito meee tlt a, ——— pzart composed a set of 12 hort duos for wo equal instruments in Viennain July 1786; on the surviving manuscript of three of them he noted a they were written ‘while playing skits, but failed to identify the instruments they were intended for. They were published after Mozart's ath as pieces for two horns, and indeed they can be played on the valveless horns of the time, using the high-register technique associated th the instrument. Bur for many years it was believed that they were too difficult for horns, and they were published most frequently as 0s for violins. The fourth of the set is inthe thythm of the polonaise, a triple-time dance from Poland (the name is the French for Polish’) ade famous in the 19th century by Chopin's piano polonaises. This arrangement includes the second horn, or violin, part in the plano companiment, sometimes in the left hand and sometimes inthe right. ord University Press 1962 produced by permission from A Second Hook of Cisscal and Romantic Pees for Violin. All rights reserved. Al enquiries about this piece, apart from those ry relating tothe exams, shouldbe addressed to Oxford Univesity Pres, Great Clarendon Steet, Oxford OX2 GDP AB37a1Hag Presto mares Third movement from Sonatina No. 6 in F, TWV 41:F1 mun Edited by and continuo 6.P. Telemann realization by Richard Jones (1661-1767) Presto [2 =c. 72] a ft 20 Georg Philipp Telemann was one of the most prolific and versatile German composers of his day. He studied at Leipzig University and held ‘court appointments at Zary and Eisenach before becoming.city music director at Frankfurt (1712) and Hamburg (1721).In Frankfurt he directed 2 local collegium musicum (music society) in weekly public concerts at which his own instrumental works were performed. These no doubt Included the Six Sonatinas for violin and harpsichord, which were first published in 1718. The finale of Sonatina No, 6, reproduced here, has an Italian tempo mark but nonetheless resembles the French gavorte en rondeau, with its half-bar upbeat, central episode (b. 8) and return of the opening theme (b. 22). Despite the time signature, i is best to think in terms of two minim beats per bar. All the dynamics ae editorial suggestions only, as are the violin slurs in bb. 9 and 21. Rb Source: Sei Sonatine per violino e cembalo (Amsterdam: Le Cene, 1724/5) © 1998 by The Associated Hoard ofthe Royal Schools of Music Adapted from Baroque Violin Pieces, Book 2 edited by Richard Jones (ABRSND, AB 37B1