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

Trinity Scales and Arpeggios – Grades 6 to 8
Trinity Sight Reading
After 30 seconds’ preparation time, candidates perform a previously unseen musical extract at approximately two grades lower than the exam being taken.

Trinity Aural Test books Grades 6 to 8

OrganPieces for Grade 7
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Group A
J S Bach, Fugue in C major, BWV 545, Organ Works vol. 5 (Bärenreiter) BA5264
J S Bach, In dir ist Freude, BWV 615, Organ Works vol. 1 (Bärenreiter) BA5171
J S Bach, Prelude (from Prelude and Fugue in A major, BWV 536), Organ Works vol. 6 (Bärenreiter) BA5266
J S Bach, Wir gläuben all an einen Gott, BWV 680, Organ Works vol. 4 (Bärenreiter) BA5264
Buxtehude, Praeludium (and Fugue), BuxWV 138, Complete Organ Works vol. 1 (Bärenreiter) BA8221
Buxtehude, Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Organ works vol. 2: Preludes, Fugues and Toccatas, (Hansen) WH26990
Couperin, 8e couplet of Gloria: Dialogue en trio du cornet et de la tierce, Mass for the Parishes (Kalmus) KO3314
Hindemith, 2nd movt (Sehr langsam and Phantasie, frei) from Sonata no. 1 (Schott) ED2557
Howells, Saraband in Modo Elegiaco, Six Pieces for Organ (Novello) NOV590354
Langlais, In Paradisum, no. 2, Triptyque grégorien (Universal) UE16968
Lübeck, Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Organ Works (Peters) EP4437
Smart, Postlude in C (Novello) NOV954514
Stanford, Fantasia, Fantasia and Toccata in D minor, op. 57, (Stainer & Bell) H365

Group B
Bridge, Adagio in E major, Three Pieces for Organ (Novello) NOV010986
Duruflé, Fugue sur le Carillon de Soissons, op. 12 (Europart) M560220185
Eben, Lied des Leiermannes, Faust (UMP) M224402063
Farnam, Toccata on O filii et filiae (Presser) 113-25819
Franck, Fugue and Variation, Prelude, Fugue and Variation, op. 18, (Durand) DF00268100
Hindemith, Lebhaft (1st movt from Sonata no. 2) (Schott) ED2558
Ireland, Menuetto-Impromptu, Organ Music of John Ireland (Novello) NOV010183
Karg-Elert, Now Thank We All Our God, op. 65 no. 59 (Breitkopf) EB6238
Mathias, Processional, A Mathias Organ Album (OUP) 9780193755505
Maxwell Davies, No. 1 (Psalm 124) and either no. 2 or no. 3, 3 Organ Voluntaries (Chester) CH55170
Messiaen, Les Enfants de Dieu, La Nativité du Seigneur vol. 2 (Leduc) AL19269
Parry, Chorale Prelude on ‘Dundee', 7 Chorale Preludes set 1 (Novello) NOV590001
Parry, Chorale Prelude on ‘Eventide', 7 Chorale Preludes set 2 (Novello) NOV590045
Peeters, Scherzo, Suite modale, op. 43, (Lemoine) 23673
Ratcliffe, Caprice, The Colours of the Organ (Novello) NOV010092
Roget, Deploración por la Semana Santa, Pâques (Schola Cantorum) OL 1 ♭
Vierne, Pastorale, no. 20, 24 Pièces en style libre vol. 2 (Durand) DF00897300
Wills, Elevation, The Colours of the Organ (Novello) NOV010092

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