ABRSM

Composers: Various
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Violin
Level: Initial

This book brings together in one place selected exam pieces, scales and sight-reading to support ABRSM's Initial Grade Violin syllabus for 2020 - 2023. The pieces, three from each of Lists A, B and C, have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information.
Inspiring recordings of the nine pieces featured in the book, plus piano accompaniment tracks for use when practising, are available from ABRSM (access code included in the book).

Song List:

• Fish Cakes and Apple Pie [Sheila Nelson]
• Old-Timer [Trad. American]
• Lightly Row [Trad. German]
• Waterfall (No. 9 from Waggon Wheels) [Katherine Colledge / Hugh Colledge]
• Silent Friends [Thomas Gregory]
• On the River [Edward Huws Jones]
• In The Groove [David Blackwell / Kathy Blackwell]
• Hop Scotch (No. 2 from Child's Play) [Peter Martin]
• Hill and gully rider [Trad. Jamaican]