what is your grade system??? (new)

[carolannd]

(repost)

Hi I am new here!

I am a Canadian currently studying at Acadia University, my instrument being piano and my major is composition. I was browsing through some of the pieces and topics posted here and I am assuming this is an American site, so you are going by a different grade system that we use in Canada. We use RCM which goes up to grade 12, I'm pretty sure.

What is your grade system called and what does it go up to? Also, could you give me an example of a piece from the highest grade?

Thanks!

[perfect_pitch]

OK....

I use the AMEB (Australian Music Examination Board) exams and they have Grades 1 - 8, then a further 3 exams called Associate, Licentiate and Fellowship...

An example of the fellowship repertoire would be as follows...

Just look at my signature.

[takeo]

I'm a Spanish student, and here we don't use grades.

First of all, you start studying in a music school, but it isn't official, because it's very easy, for beginners.
When you have a minimum level, you do an exam and, if you pass this exam, you go to a conservatory.

In the conservatory you have 6 courses, combining instrument, harmony, chamber, orchestra, etc.
You don't do exam to pass a course. Simply if you play well the repertory assigned for your course, you pass to the next, without exam.

When you have finished the conservatory you are usually 18/19 years old. Then, you can teach in a music school, but not in a conservatory.
You can continue studying in a high conservatory, making an exam to enter in.
In the high conservatory you do 4 courses, and then you do a investigation work, and a recital, and then you can teach in a conservatory.

Then you can do some postgrade studies, but basically you can teach everywhere you want.
To teach in a high conservatory, you have to pass a difficult exam, where you play your instrument, and also show to the jury how would you teach in a normal class.


There are the examples of repertoire:

For entering a conservatory:

Baroque: a two-voice invention. If you are advanced enough, a sinfonia.

Classical: a sonata like beethoven op 49/2, or mozart k 545. If you can't play these pieces, you usually play a sonatina (clementi or beethoven).

Romantic piece: schumann's child's album, or mendelssohn's songs without words.

Modern: bartok mikrokosmos.

For entering a high conservatory:

Baroque: a prelude and fugue.

Classical: beethoven's op 27/1, or op 78, or op 90.

Romantic: chopin's scherzo/ballade, liszt's sonneto del petrarca, mendelssohn's rondo capriccioso, etc.

-Modern: Bartok allegro barbaro, debussy preludes or images.

Recital of finishing high conservatory:

Baroque: a partita, or a suite.

Classical: beethoven's on of the last sonatas, of the appassionata, waldstein... or a difficult schubert sonata.

Romantic: liszt's rhapsody espagnole, or a hungarian rhapsody, of chopin's polonaise op 22...

Modern: debussy images 2, ravel miroris or gaspard de la nuit, etc.

All these pieces are orientative, you can play what you want (there aren't lists).

I'm wating to hear more grade systems. Thank you in advance!

[amelialw]

correction, rcm goes up to grade 10 afterwhich you can take your ARCT dip in performance,teaching or theory

[kiwi_bd]

Here in Hong Kong we use the ABRSM(British) grade system
It's more or less the same as that of canadian's...as what you've mentioned
First of all we've got grade 1-8 examination...than we've got 3 level of Music diploma
First one is DipABRSM(Diploma), than LRSM(Licentiate) and at last we have FRSM(Fellowship)
There are music diplomas for music performance, music direction and instrumental/vocal teaching

[pianogirl88]

As far as I know, here in America we don't use the grade system. I've played piano for 5 years and never heard of the grade system until I came to this site.