Time Pieces for Cello | Volume 1 (Grades 1-2)

Contents:

• Canon (Tallis)
• Branle des Sabots 'from Orchésographie' (Arbeau)
• Ayre, What is it all? (Campion)
• Allemande from 'Banchetto Musicale' (Schein)
• Song 22 (Gibbons)
• Italian Rant (Anon.)
• Minuet (Purcell)
• Minuet from 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' (Handel)
• Trio from Minuet No. 5, XII Menuets pour le Clavecin ou Pianoforte (Haydn)
• Das Klinget So Herrlich from 'The Magic Flute' (Mozart)
• Marmotte Op. 52 No. 7 (Beethoven)
• Liebhaber in Allen Gestalten (Lover in Many Forms) (Schubert)
• Ein Jüngling Liebt ein Mädchen (A Youth Loves a Maiden) from 'Dichterliebe' (Schumann)
• The Little Sandman (Brahms)
• Chanson Russe from 'Album for the Young' (Tchaikovsky)
• Czech Dance (Smetana)
• The Elephant from 'The Carnival of the Animals' (Saint-Saëns)
• Andante from Very Easy Melodious Exercises in the First Position, Op. 22 (Elgar)
• Moravian Folk Song (Janácek)
• The Bear (Rebikov)
• A New Year Carol from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7 (Britten)
• March of the Stegosaurus (Harris)

ABRSM’s Time Pieces for Cello series includes carefully graded selections of tuneful pieces for cello and piano. Well-crafted arrangements provide practice of the keys, note ranges and fingering patterns encountered. Each volume presents the pieces in chronological order and prints the year in which they were written.