A Keyboard Anthology | First Series Book I (Grades 1-2)

Contents:

• A Toy, from ‘Fitzwilliam Virginal Book’ (Anon.)
• Study in A minor, Op. 137, No. 8 (Henri Bertini)
• A Trumpet Minuet (Jeremiah Clarke)
• Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No.1: 1st movement, Allegro (Muzio Clementi)
• Study in B minor, Op. 139 No. 98 (Czerny)
• Lesson in d, Op. 125 No. 10 (Anton Diabelli)
• Minuet in C (Duncombe)
• Les Plaintes d’une Poupée (The Doll’s Lament) (César Franck)
• Gavotte in G (Graupner)
• German Dance in G, Hob. IX/22 No. 3 (Haydn)
• Minuet in C (Richard Jones)
• Menuetto in C: Lesson No. 17 from ‘Methode pour le piano forte’ (Pleyel)
• Suite No. 1 in G, Z. 660: 1st movement, Prelude (H. Purcell)
• Allegro in G: No. 15 from ‘Musikalischer Zeit-Vertreib auf dem Klavier’ (Rathgeber)
• Sonatina in G, Op. 127a No. 2: 1st movement, Allegro moderato (Carl Reinecke)
• Sonata in C minor, Kp. 73, L. 217: 2nd movement, Minuetto in C (Scarlatti)
• Partita in G minor: 2nd movement, Air Italien (Stölzel)
• Air in F, BWV Anh. 131 (J. S. Bach)
• Impertinence, HWV 494 (Handel)
• Chanson russe (Russian song), Op. 39 No. 12 (published as No. 11) (Tchaikovsky)
• Allegro in Bb, K. 3 (Mozart)
• The Wild Horseman (Wilder Reiter), Op. 68 No. 8 (Schumann)

ABRSM’s three series of keyboard anthologies are collections of the pieces that have been set for ABRSM’s piano exams over the years. They include a wide variety of pieces and generally concentrate on the Baroque and Romantic sections of the syllabus.