What percent of the repertoire is of Grade 8 difficulty or under?

[alysosha]

As the title says.

[quantum]

I think we need more context to answer this question in a manner that is helpful. 

Grade 8 of what?  Grade 8 RCM is not the same as Grade 8 ABRSM. 

Are you asking how many pieces differ upwards or downwards from the average difficulty of grade 8? 

[alysosha]

I think we need more context to answer this question in a manner that is helpful. 

Grade 8 of what?  Grade 8 RCM is not the same as Grade 8 ABRSM. 

Are you asking how many pieces differ upwards or downwards from the average difficulty of grade 8? 

ABRSM obviously.

I'm asking what percent of the standard reprtoire is of Grade 8 ABRSM technical difficulty and under. I think it's quite a clear question.

[perfect_pitch]

ABRSM obviously.

And how exactly was that obvious??? You never stated it in the beginning...

[alysosha]

And how exactly was that obvious??? You never stated it in the beginning...

It's hardly a point of conntention to say the ABRSM grades are by far the dominant measure when it comes to graded exams. Even this website itself grades all of it's sheet music into 8 grades with 8+ being the highest. Also it's really implicit in the question. That's why it's obvious.

[quantum]

By what measures do you make your claim ABRSM is dominant?  Remember that this forum is available to an international audience.  Depending on locale certain grading schemes have more weight than others. 

Back to your question.  How would you define "standard repertoire"?  What parameters would a piece of music have to meet in order to become part of "standard repertoire".  Your query is quite vague at the moment.  In order to accurately give some sort of answer to your question a person would need knowledge of all music considered "standard repertoire" to gain some sort of perspective to form a result.  A very improbable situation.

Would it not be easier to examine the ABRSM syllabus and see what music has indeed been explicitly listed as being Grade 8? 

[timothy42b]

We got sidetracked a bit on definitions, but I think it's a legitimate question.

If a person makes it to Grade 8 ABRSM or whatever, can we expect he/she can play most popular pieces, most liturgical music, most choir accompaniments, etc? 

I don't think the question is necessarily oriented towards piano concertos, but piano literature in general. 

[alysosha]

Yeah I'm not looking for decimal places just throw some rough figures at me. I'm also quite interested in what percent of the repertoire is made up of the romantic ultra-virtuoso show pieces.