Encore: Book 3, Grades 5 & 6
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Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM piano exam pieces, selected from syllabuses of the past few decades. Pianists will find an appealing mix of repertoire, while teachers can be confident that the perfect balance of content has been selected at every level.
Book 3 features 19 popular pieces at Grades 5 and 6. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1, or
Of Foreign Lands and Peoples by Schumann. Footnotes provide background information, a summary of the key skills that each piece develops, and new ideas for exploring the music. Perfect for learners exploring repertoire for the own-choice piece in ABRSM’s Performance Grade exams
Whether you’re working through our exams, playing informally, or planning a performance, Encore is full of music you’ll want to play again and again!
- The Blue Pool (No. 5 from On the Cool Side) [Brian Chapple]
- Miniature in D minor, No. 2 from 10 Miniatures en forme d’Études, Op. 8 [Aleksandr Fyodorovich Gedike]
- Vivace assai: No. 11 from XII petites pièces [Joseph Haydn]
- Air in F, from the ‘Water Music’, HWV 464 [George Frideric Handel]
- Rondo: Sonatina in E, Op. 12 No. 12, second movement [James Hook]
- Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (No. 1 from Kinderscenen, Op. 15) [Robert Schumann]
- By the Brook, No. 6 from Album for the Young, Op. 25 [Génari Karganov]
- To a Wild Rose: No. 1 from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 [Edward MacDowell / Rowsby Woof]
- Jackson Street Blues (from Jazz, Rags & Blues, Book 4) [Martha Mier]
- Invention No. 14 in B flat, BWV 785 [Johann Sebastian Bach]
- Adagio: 2nd movt from Sonata in C, WoO 51 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
- Columbine Dances, No. 1 from Puppets, Vol. 1 [Bohuslav Martinu]
- Waltz in A flat: No. 15 from Waltzes, Op.39 [Johannes Brahms / Kevin Hathway]
- Modulations (from Blue Piano) [Mike Cornick]
- Soirée Polka [Stephen Collins Foster]
- Adagio: 1st movement from Sonata in D, Op. 1 No. 4 [Baldassare Galuppi]
- Song without Words [Felix Mendelssohn]
- Gymnopédie No. 1 [Erik Satie]
- Vals Poetico (Poetic Waltz) No. 5 [Enrique Granados / Kevin Hathway]
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