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Exam Pieces
ABRSM Grade 3
Selected from the
2021 & 2022 syllabus
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ABRSM Piano Exams
ints 10 help)'OU prepare for your Grade 3 exam. All requfrements are valid from I January 2021 until
Here are some key po
31 邸e呻er 2022. More detailed infonnation on the syllabus requirements and syllabus overlap details can be found
。nline at www.abrsm.org/piano. ln the exam, 由e requirements can be taken in any order.

Pieces (3x30 marks)

証 book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's 2021 & 2022 Grade 3 Plano syllabus. In the exam,
youwil困如0 play three pieces, one from each or the three syllabus lists (A, B and C).

Yoo can choose from the pieces ln this book and/or the other pieces set for the grade: a full list is on the
opposite page. You 西 perform a duet for one of your pieces. You will need to follow all da capo (D.C.) and
dal seg面 (D.S.) indications bul 。山er repeats (including first-time bars) should not be played unless they are
very shon (I.e. of a few bars) or unless the syllabus specifies differently.

Scales and arpeggios (21 marks)

Leaming sea.lea and arpeggios 比Ip• you to build strong technical skills by developing reliable finger
movement, hand position, co-ordin蠶tlon and keyboard fluency. Jt a區 helps you to develop your
m叫cal unden&anding through (amlllarity with keys and thelr related patterns.

You can find a complete list of scales and arpeggios required for Grade 3 in the back of this book. ln 山eexam,
scales and arpeggios should be played from memory and witl1out pedalling. You are free to start at any octave,
pr面ded 山e required ranges are covered. For all'hands together'requirements, your hands should be one
octave apan.

Sight-reading (21 marks)

Leamingtos」ght-read helps you to develop quick recognition of keys, tonality and common rhythm
一 It 山o helps you to learn to keep gomg even when you make mistakes, and work music out for
yourwU-,磁 roam learning 國w pieces quicker and easier.
ln the exam. you will be 母.ed to play a shon piece of music that you have not seen before. You 、vill be given
half a mlnuar 10 look through and, if you wish, 可 out all or any part of the test before you are asked to play it
totheexa血昭rforassess血nL For the full sight-reading parameters, please see the syllabus.

Aural tests (18marks)

Aural 壘 enable you to auess the sound and
balance ofyour playing, keep ln time and plll)面th a sense
or rhythm and 回亡.These 血b also help you to develop your sense o「 pitch, your musical memory and
to•pot any mist吐:es.
In the exam, the 區ts will be adm·呻tered 切 the examiner from the piano, and you ,\Till be asked:

a To clap the pu區 of a piece played by the examiner, and to Identify whether It Is In two time,
three time or four lime.
h To sing as'echoes' three phra函 played by the examiner.
c To Identify a change in either pitch or rhythm during a phrase played by the examiner.
d Toan泅er questions abour two f唧ures of a piece played by the examiner.
l·or more detailed information on th e tests, please see the syllabus.
(Total available: 150 marks)

Editorial guidanc;
We have taken the· pieces ln this book from a variety of sources. Where appropriate, we have edited the pieces to help
you prepare for }'Our
perfonnance. We have added fmgering, metronome markings (in square brackets) and ornament
real區tlons. Details of oth
er changes or suggestions are given in the footnotes. Fingering and other editorial additions are
for guidance onl
y: you do not have to folJow them in lhe exam.
Piano Exam Pieces Name

ABRSM Grade 3
Selected from the 2021 & 2022 syllabus Date of exam

Contents page

LIST A
345
I Ludwig van Beethoven Ecossaise in E flat: No. 4 from Six Ecossatses, WoO 83
2 Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmfiller Innocence: No. 5 from 25 etudesfaclles et progressives, Op. I 00
3 George Friderlc Handel Gavotte in G, HWV 491

LIST B
689
1 Edward Elgar Salut d'amour, Op. 12, arr. Jones
2 Joseph Haydn Andante: from Trumpet Concerto in E flat, Hob. Vlle:1, second movement, arr. White
3 Allbhe McDonagh Anastasia: from It's a Piano Thing, Book 2

LIST C
I Alan Bullard Disco Baroque 11

2 Aleksandr Tlkhonovich Grechanlnov Riding the Hobby-Horse: No. 5 from Children's Album, Op. 98 12

3 Sarah Watts Scary Stuff: from Razzamajazz Repertoire Piano 14

Editor for ABRSM: Richard Jones

Other pieces for Grade 3

LIST A
4 A, Hedges Hornpipe Rondo (pr/mo part). A. Hedges: Hornpipe Rondofor Plano Duet (Roberton) roOETl
5 L. Mozart Angloise (from Notebookfor Wolfgang). L. Mo如rt: NotenbuchfUr Wolfgang(Schott)
6 VltaJIJ Neugaslmov Moody Gigue: from Piano S如tches, Book 1 (OUP)
7 Prokofiev Gavotte (from Classical Symphony, Op. 25), arr. Agay (primo part; with repeat - playing little notes). 加Joy ofPlano Duets
(Yorktown Music Press) D\/._ET
8 Reinecke Vivace (4th movt from Sonatina In A minor, Op. 136 No. 4). Reinecke: Six Miniature Sonatinas, Op. 136 (Breitkopf & H缸el)
9 Seiber 」azz Etudiette (from Easy Dances Il). The Young Pianist~Repertoire, Book 1 (Faber)
10 Weber Scherzo. 加 Classical Spirit, Book 1 (Alfred)

LIST B
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4 Dennis Alexander Autumn Serenade (primo part). Dennis Alexander: Alfred~Basic Piano Library, Duet Book 4 (Alfred)
5 J. S. Bach Arioso, arr. Agay (primo part). The Joy ofPiano Duets (Yorkto,vn Music Press) DUET
6 B訌tok Andante: No. 2 from For Children, Vol 2 (Boos可 &Hawkes)
7 W, Carroll Spraymist: No. 3 from In Southern Seas (Forsyth)
8 GurHtt Song. Op.172 No, 1. More Romantic Piecesfor Plano, Book2 (ABRSM)
9 Paul Harris Indigo: No. 6 from Rainbow (Boos可 &Hawkes)
10 Trad. Irish She Moved Through the Fair, arr. Hall. Eighteen Easy Escapes/or Piano (Spanan Press)

LIST C
4 Agay Uttle Rhapsody on Hungarian Themes (primo part). 加 Joy ofPiano Duets (Yorlcto、vn Music Press) QUET
5 M. Bober & G. Goranson Rushing River (FJH Music Company Inc)
6 Mllte Cornick The Waltz of the Elephants: from Clever Cat Goes on Safari (Universal)
7 Mark Goddard Locked On Latln (prfmo part): from Hands On Jazz (Spanan Press) ;ouET
8 Elton John &面 RJce Can You Feel the Love Tonight? (from The Lion King), arr. N. &R. Faber (octa函 optional). 和ber Studio Collection:
Selectionsfrom Bigl'fme Plano, Level 4 (Faber Plnno Adventures)
9 H. Mancini & J, Mercer Moon River (from Breakfast at 11Jfm1y~). arr. MIiier. A Dozen a Day S011gllook, Book 2 (Willls)
10 Karen Tanaka Northern Lights. Spectrum 4 (ADRSM)

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Ecossaise in E flat 回
No. 4 from Six Ecossaises, WoO 83

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(1770-1827)

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The ccossaise is a dance ln a lively 2/4 time. Its name Is French for'Sco11ish', and It miglll have originated in Scotland. It became very popular in
Viennn in the early 19th cenrury. and sets of ecossaises were composed by both Beethoven and Schubcn. Beethoven's Six Ecrusaises (WoO 83)
date from about 1806.
Source: first edition, Bcetho,·en: Gcsamtausg兩, Series 25, No. 44 (比lpzig: Breilkopf & H出tel, 1888). Thef in bar 17 is original; all other dynamics are editorial
suggestions only. Addltional slurs ha\-e also been supplied by the editor.
0 19泅 by The Associated Bo血 of the R砸I Schools of Music
Adapled from 氐cthoven:A 鼢oJ.:o/Dances. WoOBI暹6, edited by Hmv:ird Ferguson (ABRSMJ

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唧 Innocence
No. 5 from 25 etudes faciles et progressives, Op. 100
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(1806-74)
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Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmilller, German by birth
, settled In Paris after 1832. He became popular there as a pianist and composer,
improvising hundreds of salon·
pieces and composing much piano·
have programmatic titles. music for teaching purposes. Many of his short piano pieces, like this one,

Source:zse皿沄faclleset prog,e函函， Op. 100 (London: 緬ott, 1854}

C 1984 byThe Associated Board of the Royal 沅hools of Music

Adapted from BurgmOUer: 25 Easy and Prog,e函厐Studies, Op. 100 (ABRSM)

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Gavotte in G 匡
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(1685-1759)
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This is one of George Frideric Handel's earliest keyboard pieces, composed around 1705 when he was only 20 and living in the north German
city of Hamburg. There he played violin, and later harpsichord, in the Hamburg Opera. At that time, too, he composed keyboard pieces, arias,
cantatas and his first opera, Almira.
The gavotte is a graceful Baroque dance movement, usually moderate in tempo. Handel's themes give it a lyrical character: a three-note figure
(first falling, then rising) in bar l; and a sequence of two-note slurred figures in bars 2-3. Almost the whole piece is based on these two themes.
Source: MS copy, London, British Ubrary, R.M. 19.a.4. The slurs in bar 3 are editorial suggestions only, as are all the dynamics and omll!Tlents.
©1991 by The Associated Boai:d of the Royal Schools of Music
Adapted from Baroque Keyboard Pieces, Book I, edited by Richard Jones (ABRSM)

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Love's Greeting

囯 Salut d'amour
Op.12

Arranged by Richard Jones Edward Elgar

(1857-1934)

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The English composer Edward Elgar wos born and brought up In Worcester, and although he periodically lived and worked in London, he
nlways returned to the counties that he knew and loved, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. Mainly self-taught as a composer, he became famous
throughout Europe following the first perfom1anccs of the'Enlgmn'Variations (1899) nnd T11e Dream ofGero,uius (1900).
Since Elgor was a fine violinist, it is hardly surprising that some of hls best-loved pieces are for violin and piano, notably the Chanson de ma tin
(Morning Song) (1899) ond Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting), written In 1888. They are often arranged for other instruments, including tllis new
nrrangement for solo pinno.
C, 2020 byT11c Associated 恥an.I or the Ro別 Schools of Music

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匡 Andante
from Trumpet Concerto in Eflat, Hob. Vlle:1, second movement

Arranged by Martin White Joseph Haydn

(1732一1809)

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This is a piano arrangement of the slow movement from Haydn's Trumpet Conceno in E flat (Hob. Vlle:l), which .was composed in 1796 when he
was working In Vienna (1795-1809). It was written for the De\V keyed trumpet, which made pitches available that were missing on the old natural
trumpet at that time. The slow movement illustrates the lyrical, melodious style that is often found In Haydn's late works.
02015byTl1e 碎oclatcd Board of the Royal Schools of Music
Reproduced from Piano Mix 2 (ABRSMJ

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Anastasia 匡
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Allbhe McDonagh Is an Irish cellist and composer.. She Is a 妒duate oflhe Eastman School of Music In Rochester NY. USA, and of the Royal Irish
Academy of Music In Dublin, Ireland, where she has taught the cello since 2010.
She hns published two books of piano pieces under the title It's a Plano 111ing.'Anastasia'is taken from 1he second book. The composer has
written of this piece:'Alm for a beautiful singing I驾ato sound in the rlgltt hand; think of the long phrases and try not to allow any Interruption.
The lower voice is the more lmponant of the two In the left hand; so, 10 create the correct balance in sound, ensure that the Inner voice is al\vays
softer than the right hand and th!! lower voice.'
O Copyrl即 20 17 Dooscy &Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Reproduced by permission ofUoost-y& Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.

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The British composer Alan Bullard is partlcuJarly well known for his choral and educational music. He stud.led with Herben Howells at the Royal
College of Music In London and later taugl1t at lhe Colchester Institute for 30 years (1975-2005).
BuJlard says of this piece:'Disco dominated popular music during the late 1970s. Using similar sequences to those found In earlier music, this
piece suggests the rhythmic disco feel ,vith a steady drum beat, which should be maintained (in your head!) in the middle section.'The piece ls
taken from Piano 11me Dance, edited by Pauline Hall (OUPJ.
OOxfonl UniversltyPrcss2012
Reproduced by permission. All righ1s reserved.

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匡 Riding the Hobby-Horse

No. 5 from Children's Album, Op. 98
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(1864-1956)

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The Russian composer Aleksandr Ti柚 onovich Grechanlnov studied at the Moscow and St Petersburg Conservatories. He then taught In these
two Russian cities before moving to Paris In 1925. When the Second World War broke out In 1939, he emigrated to the USA, becoming an
American citizen In 1946. His large output includes piano music, songs, operas, and five symphonies. His Children's Album (AercK11i1 訒函M
Detskiy al'bom) dates from 1924. This piece describes a ride on a hobby-horse, and In the last ten bars the composer comments on the progress
of the journey:'Too far'(bar 19) and~l's well that ends well'(bar 23).
©renewed 1952 Scholl Music, Mainz
Reproduced by permission. All rights 「eservcd .

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巳2 Scary Stuff
from Razzamajazz Repertoire Piano
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Sarah Watts studied bassoon and piano at the Royal College of Music in London. At an early age she was inspired by her mother, who played
」 azz at home and encouraged her to improvise. One of her main musical activities today is composition. As well as writing piano music, she has
published musicals, choral works, and several books of educational music, including the Razzamajazz series. In bar 20 of this piece, she asks for
tremolo, a rapid alternation of the notes of the chord. The composer says: "'Scary Stuff" is a cool, laid-back S\ving piece. It should feel at first as if
you are quietly creeping into a spooky place. As you continue there are a few tense moments where things might be getting a bit scary. At bar 20
"something轉 happens and there is a loud scream. Thankfully things calm down after that and you are able to creep out of the place. All is well!'

©2000 Kevin Mayhew Ltd

Reproduced by permission of Kevin Mayhew Ud, (\VW\V,kevinmayhew.com). Licence No: KMC1310719/02

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