Trinity Piano Exam Pieces Plus Exercises from 2023, Grade 8, Extended Edition

Includes Online Audio

From the Publisher

This Extended Edition book contains 21 newly selected pieces for Trinity Piano Grade 8 exams from 2023, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts, along with informative performance notes to help students and teachers get the most out of the repertoire. The book also includes the technical exercises required for the exam, which have been newly composed for the 2023 syllabus, as well as the scales and arpeggios for the grade, and downloadable demonstration audio for all 21 pieces.
 
Encompassing a hugely expanded range of styles and genres including the following at every grade:

• Classical pieces from Baroque to 21st Century
• Jazz and Latin from well-known standards to modern-day repertoire
• A huge range of new brand-new compositions in classical and jazz styles
• Arrangements of global Pop hits both past and present from artists including Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Adele
• Music from Stage and Screen including bestselling Films, TV shows and Video Games such as Harry Potter and Doctor Who

This book can be used in conjunction with Trinity's 2021 piano books, which remain valid for the 2023 syllabus. This book can also be used for Trinity’s brand-new Repertoire-Only Pathway for Digital Grades.

Approved Exam Music

Recommended for the following exam grade(s):

Trinity College London Piano (from 2023)
Grades: 8

Contents

• Hoe-down (Colley)
• La Vanlo (from Pièces de clavecin book 1) (Duphly)
• Invention 1 (from Four Inventions) (Fitzgerald)
• Allegro con brio (1st movt from Sonata in G, Hob XVI:27) (Haydn)
• Investigations (Li)
• Etude no. 104 in G# minor (Montgeroult)
• Cha-La Head-Cha-La (from Dragon Ball Z) (Mori/Kiyooka, arr. Human)
• Sonata in F minor, K 19 (Scarlatti)
• Scherzo (3rd movt from Sonata in A, D 959) (Schubert)
• Chameleon (from Préludes inégales) (Butler)
• A New Adventure (Choi)
• Deep River, op. 59 (Coleridge-Taylor, arr. Joseph)
• Armando’s Rhumba (Corea, arr. Wilson)
• Clair de lune (3rd movt from Suite bergamasque) (Debussy )
• Vignette (Edis)
• The Luckiest (Folds, arr. Bailey)
• Coconut Mall (Mario Kart Wii) (Hayazaki, arr. Hussey)
• The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from The Piano) (Nyman)
• Erinnerung, op. 24 (Pejačević)
• Rule the World (Take That arr. Ayres)
• Valse, op. 64 no. 1 (Chopin)

Item Details

Instrumentation

• Part 1: Piano