Product Features
- Ten benchmarked arrangements covering a range of classical styles
- Downloadable audio: easily access audio content online
- Fact Files: composer background information
- Walkthroughs: in-depth guidance for each arrangement
Plus
- Technical Exercises
- Ear Tests
- General Musicianship Questions
Repertoire
- Naoko Ikeda – Moonlight Rose
- Burgmuller – Barcarolle Op. 100 No. 22
- Valerie Capers – Billie’s Song
- Florence Price – Ticklin’ Toes
- Lola Perrin – The Arrival
- Beethoven – Lustig Traurig
- Haydn – Allegro in F major
- Bowen Liu – Monochrome No2
- Zenobia Powell Perry – Round and Round
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude in C (from the Well Tempered Clavier, bk.1)
Supporting Tests
Technical Exercises
- Group A – Scales
- Group B – Arpeggios
- Group C – Technical Studies
Unseen Tests
- Sight Reading
- Contemporary Improvisation & Interpretation
- Ear Tests (Melodic Recall)
- General Musicianship Questions
Errata
Page 48
Ear Tests The opening two sentences of the ‘Melodic Recall’ section have been updated as follows: From: ‘The examiner will play you a two bar diatonic melody in the key of C major with a range up to an octave. The first note will be the root note or the 5th.’ To: ‘The examiner will play you a two bar diatonic melody in the key of C major with a range up to a sixth. The first note will be the root note.’ (Updated 13 Dec 2022)
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In the glossary of musical terms (‘Piano Notation Explained’) the entry marked ‘D.S. al Fine’ has been updated to read ‘D.S. al Coda’. (Updated 25 September 2024)