Handbook 1 - Preliminary to Grade 4

Handbook 2 - Grade 5 to Grade 8

This book is not the Technical Workbook.

Contains detailed analyses of all these pieces with a wealth of information about the historical, biographical and interpretative elements of each of the works. Complete with a glossary of key terms, this Handbook helps students address the Section III General Knowledge requirements of examinations. Please note this product does not contain a CD of recordings of the works.

About the Author

Overall direction of AMEB activities is the responsibility of a Federal Board consisting of representatives of educational institutions that are signatories to the AMEB constitution, namely the Universities of Melbourne, Adelaide and Western Australia, the Minister for Education, New South Wales, the Minister for Education, Training and Employment, Queensland, and the Minister for Education and Training, Tasmania, through the University of Tasmania.

Preliminary

Let's sing a duet (Eagles)
The fisherman (Hirschberg)
Theme (Spindler)
Minuet (Telemann arr. Hodgson)
Breslaur (Walzer)
Andante (Gurlitt)
Tempo di minuetto (Hook)
Little dance (Türk arr. Faber and Faber)
Mini toccata (Baumgartner)
Soufiane (El-Dabh)
Little flower girl of Paris (Gillock)
TCreepy crawlies (McFarlane)
Bouncing ball (Richert)

Grade 1

Etude (Beyer)
Prelude (Concone arr. Hodgson)
Minuet (Purcell)
Summer toccatina (Vandall)
Allegro (Hässler)
Minuet (attrib. Haydn)
Allegretto (Nielsen)
Mazurka (Szymanowska)
Goblin dance (Bullard)
A rainy Saturday (Diemer)
Mozzie (Milne)
Sailors’ dance (Tansman)

Grade 2

March (Bach, C.P.E.)
Through the steppes (Bortkiewicz)
Dragon fly (Gillock)
Minuet (Stanley arr. Lockett)
Petite pièce (Goedicke)
Allegro (Lynes)
Minuet (Mozart)
Mazurka for Chopin (Rollin)
Meandering mazurka (Kotchie)
Circus (Peskanov)
Tango for two (Schmitz)
The troll at the edge of the woods (Waxman)

Grade 3

Study (Concone)
Preludio (Handel)
Banjo tune (Schoenmehl)
Loure (Telemann)
Gavotte (Beach)
Sonatina (Benda)
Andantino (Elgar)
Menuet and trio (Haydn)
A song with a sad ending (Benjamin)
Butterfly waltz (Hiller)
Fable (Muczynski)
La poupée (Tansman)

Grade 4

Chaconne (Fischer)
Etude (Heller)
Machines on the loose (Olson)
Mountain village scene (Yu)
Orientale (Chaminade)
Allegro (Haydn)
Romanze (Hummel)
Mazurka (Tchaikovsky)
Sonatina (Kabalevsky)
Russian waltz (Kats-Chernin)
Rainy day (Liebermanni)
Tartan (Milne)

Grade 5

Invention (Bach)
Confidence (Burgmüller)
Sonata (Scarlatti)
Giga (Zipoli)
Bagatelle (Beethoven)
Rondo (Eberl)
Moderato (Haydn)
Alla Polacca (Hummel)
Tarentelle (Chaminade)
Rondo (Glier)
Waltz (Heller)
Lose Blätter (Kölling)
Merry Andrew (Bartók)
Haunted house (Benjamin)
La pluie et l’arc-en-ciel (Prokofiev)
Wistful prelude (Russell-Smith)

Grade 6

Menuet I and Menuet II (Bach, J.S.)
Le coucou (Daquin)
Four-finger exercise (Lutos?awski)
Sonata (Scarlatti)
Allegro (Bach, J.C.)
Allegro (Eberl)
Allegretto (Kozeluch)
Scherzo (Schumann)
Notturno (Grieg)
Berceuse (Hill)
Mimi se déguise en ‘Marquise’ (Séverac)
Scherzino (Wollenhaupt)
Silent and soft and slow descends the snow (Benjamin)
Dreamboat blues (Handel)
Ap agapak: variations on a Bashkirian folk song (Seiber)
Fiesta (Turina)

Grade 7

Sinfonia 15 (Bach, J.S.)
Sonata (Cimarosa)
Etude (Moszkowski)
Etude (Sibelius)
Allegro (Bach, C.P.E.)
Allegro (Haydn)
Allegro (Mozart)
Allegro moderato (Schubert)
Canción (Falla)
Gade (Grieg)
Scotch poem (MacDowell)
Où l’on entend une vieille boite (Séverac)
Sentimental melody (Copland)
Tempo di valse (Ligeti)
Stars (Sculthorpe)
Merry Andrew (Takács)

Grade 8

Presto (Bach)
Molto vivace con velocità (Czerny)
Andante con sentimento (Jensen)
Sonata (Scarlatti)
Allegro con spirito (Clementi)
Allegro moderato (Haydn)
Allegretto (Kozeluch)
Fièrement (Méhul)
Hexentanz (MacDowell)
Mazurka (Schumann)
Polka (Smetana)
Humoresque (Tchaikovsky)
Allegretto (Bartók)
Prelude for a pensive pupil (Glanville-Hicks)
The lake at evening (Griffes)
Sacro-monte (Turina)

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