ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024

ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024 

This book includes nine compositions featured in ABRSM’s Grade 1 Violin syllabus for 2024, comprising three pieces selected from Lists A, B, and C each. It’s an ideal resource for both Practical and Performance Grade exams.

Carefully curated to offer a diverse range of styles, these pieces create a captivating collection that caters to performers of all kinds. The book also features helpful footnotes and useful syllabus information for exam preparation. An edition of this book with accompanying audio is also accessible, offering downloadable recordings of all nine pieces along with piano accompaniment tracks.

ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024 | Grade 1

Song List; 

• 1. The Sword Knott: from Minuets, Cotillons and Country Dances [Ignatius Sancho]
• 2. Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet [J. S. Bach]
• 3. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Trad. Irish) [Litten]
• 4. Moonrise: No. 1 from A Fairy Ring [Bernard Shore]
• 5. An Coineachan (Trad. Scottish) [Bullard]
• 6. Tumbalalaika (Trad. Yiddish) [Gritton]
• 7. The Flintstones
• 8. Hoe Down: from Little Suite No. 3 [Peter Martin]
• 9. Siyahamba (Trad. Zulu) [Iles]

ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024 | Grade 2

Song List;

• 1. Da Rod to Moreview: from The Tom Anderson Collection, Vol. 1 [Tom Anderson]
• 2. Gavotte: from Les nations, Premier ordre (‘La Françoise’) [François Couperin]
• 3. Écossaise in G, WoO 23 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
• 4. Climb Ev’ry Mountain: from The Sound of Music [Rodgers & Hammerstein II]
• 5. Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen]
• 6. Lake of Ice [Shruthi Rajasekar]
• 7. Little Dance: No. 12 from First String Tunes [Adam Carse]
• 8. Black Cat Rag [Craig Utting]
• 9. Lady Meng Jiang (Trad. Jiangsu) [Stock]

ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024 | Grade 3

Song List; 

• 1. Blackberry Blossom (Trad. American) [Huw Jones]
• 2. Loure: from Suite in G, TWV 11:21 [G. P. Telemann]
• 3. Reigen: No. 2 from Acht Leichte Stücke [Natalya Baklanova]
• 4. Sleep Song: from Hänsel und Gretel [Engelbert Humperdinck]
• 5. Ashokan Farewell [Jay Ungar]
• 6. Rédowa de Wallerstein: No. 3 from Le mélodiste, Op. 86 [Charles Dancla]
• 7. I got plenty o’ nuttin’: from Porgy and Bess [Gershwin]
• 8. (A Rumba): No. 4 from Four Modern Dance Tunes [Neil Mackay Rebecca]
• 9. A Shanty for Ludwig [James B. Wilson]

ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024 | Grade 4

Song List; 

• 1. Prelude: from Easy Pieces, Book 1 [Grazyna Bacewicz]
• 2. Ragtime Annie (Trad. American) [Huw Jones]
• 3. Vivace: fourth movement from Sonata in G minor, Op. 3 No. 7 [Antonio Veracini Vivace]
• 4. The Legend of Ashitaka: from Princess Mononoke [Joe Hisaishi]
• 5. The Deserted Garden [Florence B. Price]
• 6. Ländler [Gustav Holst]
• 7. Butterfly: from Musical Journeys, Book 1 [Ewa Iwan]
• 8. Danse espagnole, Op. 102 [Bénoni Lagye]
• 9. Fly Me To The Moon [Bart Howard]

ABRSM Violin Exam Pieces from 2024 | Grade 5

Song List;

• 1. Giga: from Sonata in D, Op. 25 No. 5 [Michel Corrette]
• 2. Allegro: second movement from Sonata in F, Op. 1 No. 12, HWV 370 [Georg Friedrich Händel]
• 3. Giga: fourth movement from Sonata in G minor, Op. 5 No. 6 [J. B. Loeillet]
• 4. Romance: No. 1 from Two Romances [Elfrida Andrée]
• 5. Leaving Home (Trad. Shanxi) [Long]
• 6. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [Manning Sherwin]
• 7. Tango Habanera [Barbara Arens]
• 8. Moderato: first movement from Sonatine [Germaine Tailleferre]
• 9. Czardas: No. 3 from Hungarian Sketches, Op. 23 [Gustav Hille]