I was looking for a piece of music I learned to play when I was about 11 or 12 and I knew some of the exam books I used at the time were still at home. I even knew when where they were. The piece of music was a Sonatina and some research around exam organisations didn’t turn up anything when I searched IMSLP. So the piece was in the grade 2 book. It was a Sonatina in G by Thomas Attwood. You can find the music here (youtube sorry). I’m also interested in a Sonatine piece that was on the Grade III book.
Here’s what was in those books
- Sonatina in G – Attwood
- A Little Song – Kabelevsky
- Mazurka – Berkovich
- Sonatine (2nd movement) Haslinger
- Dolly’s Complaint – Franck
- Serenade Andalouse – Poot
- Sonatine (2nd movement) – Pleyel
- Pentatonic Tune – Bartók
- First Loss = Schumann
- Sonatina – Hook
- A Little Song – Khachaturian
- Gay Story – Shostakovich
- Sonatine – Dussek
- Bagatelle – Beethoven (A flat)
- Knight Errant – Furze
- Sonata in C – Mozart
- Novelette – Khabalevsky
- Tuesday’s Child – Bennett
Looking at the list, what strikes me is that Khabalevsky turned up a couple of times.
I’m reasonably sure that I did Grade 5 as well but the book was nowhere to be found, I don’t remember what colour the cover was but I am reasonably sure that Fur Elise was on the list. If anyone from the RIAM from nearly 40 years is still knocking around, I’d be interested to know.