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Grade 6 Pieces
Four pieces; at least one chosen by the candidate from each of the three Lists, A, B and C, and a fourth of the candidate’s own choice; for further programming requirements, see the ABRSM Exam Syllabus.
Please use the links below to find the titles recommended in the ABRSM Exam Syllabus.
Please note the first three pieces in each list are in ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028 Grade 6
Books marked with 📖 are currently unavailable in the UK.
Grade 6 Scales & Arpeggios
ABRSM Piano Scales & Arpeggios Grade 6
Grade 6 Sight-Reading
ABRSM Piano Sight-Reading Grade 6
Grade 6 Aural
ABRSM Specimen Aural Tests Grade 6
Additional Resources
Grade 6 Scale & Arpeggios
Improve Your Scales Grade 6
Grade 6 Sight Reading
ABRSM More Piano Sight-Reading Grade 6
Joining the Dots Grade 6
Improve Your Sight-Reading Grade 6
Grade 6 Aural
ABRSM Aural Training in Practice, Grades 6-8
Improve Your Aural Grade 6
Aural Test Survival Grade 6
Theory of Music
ABRSM Music Theory Exam Materials
Additional Music Theory Resources
Grade 6 2027 & 2028 List A
1. E. Farrar, Minuet, (No. 11 from Three Pieces, Op. 23), Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
2. Mozart, Allegro (1st movt from Sonata in C, K. 545), Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
3. Chopin, Polonaise in G minor, KK IIa No. 1, Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
4. C. P. E. Bach, Solfeggietto in C minor, Wq. 117/2, Selected Keyboard Works, Book 2 (ABRSM) or Classics to Moderns, Book 6 (Yorktown Music Press)
5. J. S. Bach, Invention No. 6 in E, BWV 777, Two-part Inventions (ABRSM) or Inventions and Sinfonias (Henle) or Encore Plus, Book 3 (ABRSM) 📖
6. J. F. F. Burgmüller, Velocity, Op. 109 No. 10, Studies, Op. 109 (Peters)
7. Cimarosa, Allegro (1st movt from Sonata No. 6 in G), The Classical Spirit, Book 2 (Alfred)
8. Handel, Fantasia in A, Classics to Moderns, Book 6 (Yorktown Music Press)
9. Haydn, Andante in D, Klavierstücke, Klaviervariationen (Henle) or Différentes petites pièces (Edition HH)
10. B. Joel, arr. Joo, Invention in C minor, Op. 6, Fantasies & Delusions Music for Solo Piano, Op. 1–10 (Hal Leonard)
11. K. Paine, Village Dance (No. 5 from In the Country, Op. 26), Masters of American Piano Music (Alfred)
12. A. Lindeman, Allegretto (from Character Pieces), Women Composers, Book 2 (Schott)
13. B. Marcello, Presto (2nd movt from Sonata in G), A Keyboard Anthology, 3rd Series, Book 4 (ABRSM)
14. D. Scarlatti, Sonata in A, Kp. 208, L. 238, 200 Sonatas, Vol. 2 (EMB Zeneműkiadó)
15. Schubert, Moment musical in F minor, Moments musicaux, D. 780 (ABRSM) or Impromptus and Moments musicaux (Henle)
16. Telemann, Allegro (1st movt from Fantasia No. 1 in D, 1st Dozen, TWV 33:1), Fantasias, 1st Dozen (ABRSM)
Grade 6 2027 & 2028 List B
1. B. Arens, Summer Moonlight, (No. 4 from Rendezvous with Midnight), Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
2. Granados, Vals poético (No. 3 from Valses poéticos), Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
3. Haydn, Adagio in F, Hob. XVII:9, Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
4. Albéniz, Tango (No. 2 from España, Op. 165) Core Classics, Grades 5–6 (ABRSM)
5. Y. Bowen, A Pastel, A Pastel (Chester)
6. Burleigh, In the Cold Moonlight, From the Southland – Sketches for Piano (Presser)
7. Chopin, Waltz in A minor, KK. IVb No. 11, with first repeat, Waltzes for Piano (Henle) or More Romantic Pieces for Piano, Book 4 (ABRSM)
8. D. Joio, Prayer of the Matador (No. 2 from Lyric Pieces for the Young), The Boosey & Hawkes 20th-Century Piano Collection – from 1945 (Boosey & Hawkes)
9. Glière, Prelude in D- (No. 1), Eight Easy Pieces, Op. 43 (ABRSM) or A Romantic Sketchbook for Piano, Book 4 (ABRSM)
10. Guastavino, Cantilena No. 1 ‘Santa Fe para Ilorar’, 10 Cantilenas Argentinas (Melos)
11. C. Hartmann, Nocturne, Two Piano Pieces (Edition HH)
12. S. Hough, Little Lullaby, Suite R-B and Other Enigmas (Weinberger)
13. Khachaturian, Legend, Pictures of Childhood (Boosey & Hawkes)
14. Schumann, Einsame Blumen, Waldscenen, Op. 82 (ABRSM)
15. Skryabin, Prelude in E (No. 9 from 24 Preludes, Op. 11), A Keyboard Anthology, 2nd Series, Book 5 (ABRSM)
16. S. Wedgwood, Empty Rooms, Sam Wedgwood’s Project, Book 1 (EVC)
Grade 6 2027 & 2028 List C
1. Gonzaga, Sultana, Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
2. M. Thompson Corley, Spring Sunshine, Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
3. Jensen, Reigen (No. 5 from Lieder und Tänze, Op. 33), with first repeat, Piano Exam Pieces 2027 & 2028, Grade 6 (ABRSM)
4. L. Bernstein, arr. Klose, Cool (from West Side Story), Broadway Piano Solos (Boosey & Hawkes)
5. Cairos-Rego, Arabesque in A minor, Arabesque in A minor (Stainer & Bell)
6. V. Capers, Mr “Satchmo”, Portraits in Jazz (OUP)
7. Casella, Galop Final, 11 Children’s Pieces, Op. 35 (Universal)
8. B. Crosland, View from a Window, Cool Beans!, Vol. 1 (Editions Musica Ferrum)
9. P. Harvey, Rumba Toccata, Rumba Toccata (Ricordi)
10. N. Iles, East Coast Blues, Jazz on a Summer’s Day (OUP)
11. Mercury, arr. Keveren, Somebody to Love, Queen for Classical Piano (Hal Leonard)
12. N. Okoye, Dancing Barefoot in the Rain (from African Sketches), Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora, Vol. 1
(OUP)
13. Prokofiev, Cortège de sauterelles, Musiques d’enfants, Op. 65 (Boosey & Hawkes)
14. K. Tanaka, Lavender Field, Encore Plus, Book 3 (ABRSM) 📖 or Spectrum 3 (ABRSM)
15. B. Taylor, arr. Churchill, I wish I knew how it would feel to be free, Nikki Iles and Friends, Book 1 (ABRSM)
16. Yamada, Four Seasons in Kyoto, Yamada: Three Old Japanese Art Dances (Carl Fischer)
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