Cello Exam Pieces from 2024, ABRSM Grade 2
by Various
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2023
- Publisher
- ABRSM (cello part and piano accompaniment ISBN 9781786015716; cello part only 9781786015662; with audio 9781786015761)
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About this piece
Nine pieces for cello and piano set for ABRSM's Grade 2 cello exam from 2024, with notes on each piece. It includes a song by the 18th-century Viennese composer Maria Theresia von Paradis, a Serenade by the Scottish cellist-composer Marie Dare, Caroline Lumsden's comic Melted Mouse & Roasted Rat in Choc'late Sauce, a Scott Joplin rag, Thomas Hewitt Jones's Funny Song and Nikki Iles's arrangement of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Technical overview
Mostly first position with backward extensions and accidentals, reaching into the lower positions. Portato and two-note slurs, dotted rhythms, a low C-string range, and tempo changes with crescendos and diminuendos. Every piece has a piano accompaniment.
Technical focus
- 2 Note Slurs
- Accidentals
- C String Notes
- Collaboration with Piano
- Dotted Rhythms
- Dynamics
- Extensions
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Portato
- Tempo Changes