The Current ABRSM 2005 / 2006 Grade Examinations - Anything on all the pieces!

[pianochild]

Welcome To The Piano Gradings Room !!!

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grade 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8                  -*-*-*    ABRSM    *-*-*-
                                                                           

[BoliverAllmon]

how fast do your scales need to be for grade 8?

[gruffalo]

i think its 80 = minum. or 88, cant remember.

[dnephi]

Wow.  I practice my scales up to about 90 at most :x (is that 4 notes to a beat?)  Btw in John Thompson's American system, what grade is your grade 8?

[thorn]

I've done all the exams, but looking through the syllabus, I have quite a few notes on the Grade 8 Ravel Sonatine mvt 2 if anyone's doing this piece...

[wenat]

G.1 Scales :  60 q.notes/m;   arp. 46 q.notes/min
G2  Scales:  66q./m;  arp. 63 q./m
G3 Scales:  80q./m; arp 69 q./m
G4 Scales:  52 h.notes/m;   arp 76q./m
G5 scales:  63 h./m:  arp 88q./m
G6 Scales:  76 h./m:  arp 50 h./m
G7 Scales:  80 h./m:  arp 56 h./m
G8 Scales:  88 h./m:  arp 66 h./m

taken from These music exams ABRSM...hope it helps 

[BoliverAllmon]

88 to the half?

[wenat]

Yep!  according to "These music Exams"...it's 88 to the half note...actualy not very fast, I've got students in G5 - 6 doing it at about that speed.

[BoliverAllmon]

geez, I need work then.

boliver

[gruffalo]

Wow.  I practice my scales up to about 90 at most :x (is that 4 notes to a beat?)  Btw in John Thompson's American system, what grade is your grade 8?

abrsm. yeah thats 4 quavers to each pulse.

[princess_moose]

I've done all the exams, but looking through the syllabus, I have quite a few notes on the Grade 8 Ravel Sonatine mvt 2 if anyone's doing this piece...

I love that piece, but find it really hard.

[verywellmister]

All the pieces listed on the 07/08 syllabus look good!
I recommend the Shosti P+F from List A, but the fugue is tricky.
All the List B are good.  I like the Haydn Hob.xvi:50 and 52 and Beethoven 31/1,
Out of Liszt C, the Ravel is beautiful, the Poulenc is fun, and the Brahms is one of my favorites. 

Yes, the Ravel is hard, some ppl have trouble on measure 8 due to its awkwardness. Don't roll there.   Between measures 75 and 76 I would immediately change my hand position to play the chord between 76 and 77.  Remember to the make the overall tone sound warm.

Is it just me, or are these G8 pieces harder than usual?

I miss doing ABRSM...

[stevie]

geez, I need work then.

boliver

ive noticed my scale speeds are rather extreme in comparison with these requirments, and ive never done the grades.

just goes to show they mean jack sheet, or maybe im just extremely gifted?

[wenat]

yes...they are moderate!! and the majority of my students play them faster than stated here.....amybe they're all gifted too 

[BoliverAllmon]

or  maybe I suck.

[BoliverAllmon]

is the sylllabus out for 06/07?

[verywellmister]

The grade 8 is displayed on the site, but not the other grades.

[BoliverAllmon]

where I am not seeing it

[thorn]

All the pieces listed on the 07/08 syllabus look good!
I recommend the Shosti P+F from List A, but the fugue is tricky.
All the List B are good.  I like the Haydn Hob.xvi:50 and 52 and Beethoven 31/1,
Out of Liszt C, the Ravel is beautiful, the Poulenc is fun, and the Brahms is one of my favorites. 

Yes, the Ravel is hard, some ppl have trouble on measure 8 due to its awkwardness. Don't roll there.   Between measures 75 and 76 I would immediately change my hand position to play the chord between 76 and 77.  Remember to the make the overall tone sound warm.

Is it just me, or are these G8 pieces harder than usual?

I miss doing ABRSM...

the Ravel isn't technically difficult- it is in terms of interpretation though

[princess_moose]

All the pieces listed on the 07/08 syllabus look good!
I recommend the Shosti P+F from List A, but the fugue is tricky.
All the List B are good.  I like the Haydn Hob.xvi:50 and 52 and Beethoven 31/1,
Out of Liszt C, the Ravel is beautiful, the Poulenc is fun, and the Brahms is one of my favorites. 

Yes, the Ravel is hard, some ppl have trouble on measure 8 due to its awkwardness. Don't roll there.   Between measures 75 and 76 I would immediately change my hand position to play the chord between 76 and 77.  Remember to the make the overall tone sound warm.

Is it just me, or are these G8 pieces harder than usual?

I miss doing ABRSM...

The Ravel is hard for me because of the key. I just can't get my head around keys with lots of sharps of flats, and I practice it for a bit and then when I come back to it I seem to have forgotten everything grr!

The pieces I've seen are quite hard I think, but I think note wise the Mozart k309 isn't too bad.

I am going to start looking at TrinityGuildhall instead of ABRSM though.

[BoliverAllmon]

The grade 8 is displayed on the site, but not the other grades.

are we talking about abrsm.org? I can't find it anywhere there.

boliver

[princess_moose]

Here are the grade 8 pieces:  Hope it helps.

List A

1. JS Bach - Prelude & Fugue in Ab, BWV 862 No. 17
2. Mendelssohn - Prelude & Fugue in D No. 2 Op. 35
3. Scarlatti - Sonata in A minor Kp 175 (L. 429)
4. JS Bach - Duetto No. 3 in G, BWV 804
5. Handel - Prelude and Gigue, 1st and 4th movements from Suite No. 6 in F# m
6. Scarlatti - Sonata in E, Kp 46 (L. 25)
7. Shostakovich - Prelude & Fugue in A, Op. 87 No. 7
8. A Soler - Sonata in D minor R. 15

List B

1. Clementi - Allegro con Spirito, 1st movement from Sonata in Gm, Op. 7 No. 3
2. Haydn - Allegro, 1st mvmt from Sonata in Eb, Hob. XVI/52
3. Mozart - Allegro, 1st mvmt from Sonata in F, K 332
4. Beethoven - Adagio Cantabile-Allegro ma non troppo, From Sonata in F# minor Op. 78
5. Beethoven - Allegro Vivace, 1st mvmt from sonata in G, Op. 31 no. 1
6. Haydn - Allegro, 1st movement from Sonata in C, Hob. XVI/50
7. Mozart - Allegro con spirito, first movement from Sonata in C K 309
8. Schubert - Allegro Moderato, 1st movement from Sonata in Eb D. 568, Op. 122

List C

1. Eleanor Alberga - If the silver bird could speak
2. Martinu - The puppets' dance, no. 5
3. Prokofiev - Gavotte No. 2, Op. 95
4. Ravel - Mouvement de menuet, 2nd movement from Sonatine
5. Turina - Vals romantico No.3 Op 101
6. Copland - JAzzy, no. 3
7. Albeniz - Rumoures de la caleta No. 6, Op. 71
8. Bortkiewicz - Prelude no. 1 from op 13
9. Brahms - Intermezzo in E (Adagio) No. 4 Op. 116
10. Chopin - Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55 no 1
11. Debussy - La serenade interrompue, no. 9
12. Gershwin - Liza
13. Grieg - Notturno No. 4 from Lyrische Stucke, book 5, op 54
14. Moeran - Irish love song - no. 1
15. Poulenc - Toccatta: No. 3
16. Rachmaninov - Prelude in F, no. 7 from Op. 32.

[BoliverAllmon]

thanks