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Encore: Book 4, Grades 7 & 8
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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 4 features 14 popular pieces at Grades 7 and 8. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Willie Wagglestick’s Walkabout
or Chopin’s Nocturne in B, Op. 32 No. 1. Footnotes provide background information, a summary of the key skills that each piece develops, and
new ideas for exploring the music. 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! Perfect for learners exploring repertoire for the own-choice piece in ABRSM’s Performance Grade exams
- Prelude in G, BWV 860/1: No. 15 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part 1 [Johann Sebastian Bach / Nikki Iles]
- For Johnny Mehegan, No.2 from Four Anniversaries [Leonard Bernstein]
- Willie Wagglestick's Walkabout, No. 4 from Jazzy Piano 2 [Brian Bonsor]
- Berceuse [Frank Bridge]
- Kleines Klavierstück No. 1, from Vier klieine Klavierstucke (Four Short Piano pieces), S. 192 [Franz Liszt]
- Giga in G minor, from ‘6 Suits or Lessons for the harpsichord or spinnet’ [Jean Baptiste Loeillet]
- Menuetto and Trio Third movement from Sonata in E flat, D.568 [Franz Schubert]
- Allegro, First movement from Sonata in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
- Nocturne in B, Op. 32 No. 1 [Fryderyk Chopin]
- Piano Blues No. 3 [Aaron Copland]
- Prélude: first movement from Suite bergamasque [Claude Debussy]
- Sonata in F, K. 332 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
- Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C (from 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87) [Dmitry Shostakovich]
- Sonata in D, Kp. 535, L. 262 [Domenico Scarlatti]