Description
The Keyboard Anthology First series Book 1 is the first book in the series which is a collection of pieces which have been set for ABRSM’s piano exams over the years. There are three series, each containing five graded volumes and reflecting the wide variety of pieces on the syllabuses. The series concentrate on the baroque and romantic sections of the syllabus. Book 1 is approximately grades 1 and 2.
Keyboard Anthology First series Book 1 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 [Joseph 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 [D. 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 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
- The Wild Horseman (Wilder Reiter), Op. 68 No. 8 [Robert Schumann]
