Here are some ideas for examples that can be used for the ABRSM’s ‘A’ test in Grades 1, 2 and 3.
Aural Grades 1 -3 Compound time examples
Compound duple time signature.
Walking in Spring Wilm Grade 4 1997
Donkey Ride Swinstead Grade 4 1998
Little Flower Op 205 No. 1 Gurlitt Grade 3 1999 – 2000
Larghetto C3 Stravinsky Grade 3 1999 - 2000
Reaper’s Song Op. 68 No. 18 Schumann Grade 4 1999 – 2000
Proud Horseman B1 Fuchs Grade 3 2001 – 2002
Study in B flat B2 Heller Grade 4 2001 - 2002
Study in A minor B3 Mayer Grade 3 2003 – 2004
Allegro A2 Kuhlau 2003 - 2004
Equivoque No. 8 Weber Grade 3 2005 – 2006
La Tarantelle Burgmuller Grade 5 2005 – 2006
Romance B3 Reinecke Grade 5 2007 - 2008
Allegretto A3 Turk Grade 3 2007 – 2008
Les Pifferari Gounod Grade 3 2009 – 2010 (My Keyboard Anthology Second series Book 2)
Wild Rider B3 Schumann Grade 3 2011 – 2012
Vivace A3 Wesley Grade 3 2013 – 2014
Wiosna B1 Chopin Grade 3 2013 – 2014
Cotton Reel Nikki Illes C2 Grade 3 2015 – 2016
Am Abend B3 Hoffman Grade 5 2015 – 2016
Giga A2 de Seixas Grade 3 2019 – 2020
Shadows B1 Walter Carroll Grade 3 2019 – 2020
Andante B2 Haydn Grade 3 2021 – 2022
Riding the Hobby Horse C2 Grechaninov Grade 3 2021 – 2022
Idylle B2 Chaminade Grade 4 2023 – 2024
Compound triple time signature.
See-saw Alternative Goddard Grade 3 1998
Dream B1 Bloch Grade 5 2007 – 2008
Fanfare C3 Dejan Despic Grade 5 2007 - 2008
Spanish Guitar Grade 3 2023 - 2024