Cello Exam Pack from 2024, ABRSM Initial Grade
by Various
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2023
- Publisher
- ABRSM (ISBN 9781786015808)
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About this piece
Nine short pieces for cello and piano set for ABRSM's Initial Grade cello exam from 2024, three from each of Lists A, B and C, together with the scales and sight-reading for the grade. The pieces run from a Renaissance dance (La Bergamasca) and Czech and German folk tunes arranged by Kathy and David Blackwell to new pieces by living composers: Althea Talbot-Howard's The Knights' Pavane, Nancy Litten's Crunch Time and Jemima Oosthuizen's Ladybird Laze, plus Nikki Iles's arrangement of Blowin' in the Wind. The pack includes the cello part and the piano accompaniment, and ABRSM's recordings of the pieces, with piano-only backing tracks, are on the main streaming services.
Technical overview
Open strings and first-finger notes in first position on the G, D and A strings, in simple rhythms with clear dynamic contrasts. Every piece has a piano accompaniment.
Technical focus
- A String Notes
- Collaboration with Piano
- D String Notes
- Dynamics
- G String Notes