Grade 6 ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces

1. Jingpo Shange 景颇山歌 2014

ABRSM Piano 2013-2014 Grade 6 C:3, a traditional Chinese folk tune, arranged by Zhang Zhao. Jingpo Folksong.

 

2.  Danza de la rosa/Dance of the Rose 西班牙小曲：玫瑰之舞
No. 3 from Escenas poéticas, Series I. ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces 2013 & 2014 Grade 6 List B:2 by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Enrique Granados was essentially self-taught as a composer. From 1890 onwards he established a reputation as a concert pianist, and in 1901 he founded his own music school, the Academic Granados, in his native city of Barcelona. In 1916, during the First World War, he was crossing the English Channel when his ship was torpedoed, and he lost his life in a futile attempt to save his wife.
Granados's musical style fuses elements of the 19th-century Romantic tradition with the idioms of Spanish folk music. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern indigenous school of Spanish piano music. The first of two sets of Escenas poéticas, from which this piece is selected, dates from 1912.



3. Fugue, No. 2 from Six Fugues 赋格, 选自6首赋格中的第二首

A:3 Grade 6 ABRSM piano exam piece 2013-2014. The German organist Johann Christoph Kellner was the son of Johann Peter Kellner, a friend and colleague of J.S. Bach. He studied both with his father and with Georg Benda. Later he became court organist in Kassel, as well as cantor at the Lutheran Church. He composed much keyboard music, both in the fashionable galant style of his day and in a more traditional contrapuntal style, as in the collection of six fugues from which this piece is selected.
This lively three-part fugue falls into three paragraphs. The first paragraph is the exposition containing soprano, alto and bass subject entries; it closes in b. 10 in the dominant key of G. In the middle paragraph there are two-and three-part stretto(overlapping) entries; the music modulates to the relative minor, A, and then returns via the circle of fifths to the tonic key at b. 25. The concluding paragraph is in the tonic key throughout, and occasional subject entries alternate with new episodes, mostly based on the triadic head-motif of the subject.