Please use the links below to find the titles recommended in the Trinity College Exam Syllabus:

Scales and Arpeggios – Grades Initial to 5

Improve Your Sight Reading – Trinity Piano Grade 1

Trinity Piano Teaching Notes, Book and CD, Grade 1 2018-2020

PIECES: Candidates play a balanced programme of three pieces, chosen from the lists below. An own composition may be played instead of one listed piece. Pieces marked * are an own interpretation piece.

Core repertoire
The following pieces are in the book Trinity Electronic Keyboard Exam Pieces & Technical Work 2019-2022: Grade 1, TCL018632

Beethoven, Pastoral (theme from Symphony no. 6)
Elgar, Land of Hope and Glory (Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1)
Loggins, Footloose *
Schubert, Unfinished Symphony (theme from Symphony no. 8)
Smith, Whirling Dervishes
Trad., Cockles and Mussels
Trad., English Country Garden
Trad., Shaker Tune
Trad., Star of County Down
Trad., Wild Mountain Thyme

Alternative repertoire

Bullard, Feeling Fine, Piano Time Pieces book 2, (OUP) 9780193727878
Freedman, arr. Fletcher, Rock Around the Clock, Making the Grade: Keyboard Grade 1 , (Chester) CH71995
Hook, Gavotte, Piano Time Pieces book 2, (OUP) 9780193727878
Jacobs/Casey, Summer Nights, Keyed Up: The Yellow Book (Upper Elementary), (Alfred) 20104UK
Leiber/Stoller, I Want to Be Free, Keyed Up: The Yellow Book (Upper Elementary), (Alfred) 20104UK
Sting, Fields of Gold, The Complete Keyboard Player book 2 (revised edition), (Wise) AM963193
The Velvet Underground, There She Goes, The Complete Keyboard Player book 2 (revised edition), (Wise) AM963193
Trad., arr. Litten, Mango Walk, Keyed Up: The Yellow Book (Upper Elementary), (Alfred) 20104UK

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