Your favourite ABRSM piano exam pieces-Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM Piano exam pieces from Grades 1 to 8. Book 4 features popular pieces set on ABRSM Grades 7 and 8. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics like Willie Wagglestick’s Walkabout or a Beethoven Allegro. Plus we’ve included background information and new ideas for exploring the music. Encore is perfect for:   Developing skills and technique between grades. Sourcing music for a concert or recital Learning or playing for fun away from the exam format. Adults returning to Pianoplaying looking for approachable repertoire they’ll recognise.     For teachers we’ve made sure that the content is perfectly balanced at every level. For quick reference each piece has a note highlighting skills to focus on. Encore is packed full of music that will:   Motivate students – all the pieces have been chosen for their ongoing popular appeal. Form a bank of rich content so you can pick and choose pieces to help each student improve. Introduce new skills and techniques to prepare exam candidates for the next level.     Whether you’re working through our exams playing informally or planning a performance Encore is full of music you’ll want to play again and again. Loeillet's Giga and Bonsor's Willie Wagglestick's Walkabout are included on ABRSM Piano Grade 7 syllabus 2017-2018

Nineteen pieces for Piano Solo from the Baroque to the late Romantic period edited by Howard Ferguson. Includes works by Telemann Pergolesi Gounod and Grieg. Grieg's Waltz in E Minor is included on ABRSM Piano Grade 5 Syllabus 2017-2018

Another wonderful collection of Keyboard music from the significant periods and composers all in easy arrangements. In all there are twenty-one pieces from Purcell and Telemann to Stanford and Goedicke each has been carefully edited for the ABRSM by Howard Ferguson. J S Bach's Bourrée is an alternative for ABRSM Piano Grade 3 2017-2018

Easier Piano Pieces 19-Friedrich Burgmuller's op. 100 is his most noteworthy achievement not least because its pieces are much more than mere mechanical studies. Angelic Harmony is included in ABRSM Piano Grade 3 syllabus 2017-2018

A collection of Baroque keyboard pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach Georg Philipp Telemann and others. Included on ABRSM Piano Grade 5 & 7 2017-2018

A wonderful collection of pieces for Piano Solo which have been edited and fingered by Alec Rowley. Study is included on ABRSM Piano Grade 6 syllabus 2017-2018 as an alternative piece

More fun pieces to get jazzy with.-Here's a real bonus - a collection of over 40 toe-tapping pieces in a variety of styles for students to perform or use to improve technique and widen musical vocabulary. The fun-to-play pieces are in the same‘feel-good’ jazzy style we’ve come to expect from Sarah Watts’ Razzamajazz series. For Grade 2-4 solo Piano. Sarah Watts has a passion for encouraging people toenjoy music. As Artistic Director of the National Youth Music Camps she plays a large part in promoting the Dankworth 'all music' philosophy that influenced her early years. Rock Pools is included on the ABRSMPiano Grade 2 syllabus 2017-2018

Despite the extraordinary significance attributed to Bohuslav Martinu's 14 short Piano pieces entitled Puppets surprisingly little is known about the exact time and circumstances of their composition. It is however certain that these are the first works by Martinu which transcended his initial attempts at composition and they quickly found a publisher. Thanks to their lasting popularity particularly with young pianists they were published in numerous editions. The pieces take the characters of Italian commedia dell'arte as their theme: Pierrot Colombine and Harlequin. Also included are dance and ball scenes as well as scenesfrom the 'private lives' of the puppets. The three editions of Puppets were composed between 1912 and 1925 in reverse order. The works all differ from one another beginning with different aesthetic starting points and ending with Piano writing which gradually matures. Now the cycle is published for the first time in one volume. Martinu's Puppets now available in a collected edition- all three editions in one volume- newly revised based on available sources. New fingerings by Giorgio Koukl - preface and Critical Commentary by editor Ales Brezina (Cz./Ger./Eng./Fr.). Pohádka is included on ABRSM Piano Grade 6 syllabus 2017-2018

Czechoslovakia has a rich and diverse heritage of folk-tunes many of which have a vigorous quality that is particularly attractive to young pianists. These fifty-two pieces are selected from a volume of one hundred by the distinguished Czech composer Petr Eben originally published in Prague. The tunes are given simple but inventive arrangements which often illustrate their descriptive titles. They are carefully graded (Grades 1-3) progressively introducing new technical elements. Petr Eben born in South Bohemia in 1929 has pursued a notable teaching career at Charles University Prague alongside his principalactivities as composer and pianist. His concern for young musicians is reflected in his Czech adaptation of Orff's Schulwerk and a large number of compositions for children. His creative arrangements of folk-tunes have already proved a great success with Piano teachers and pupils in Czechoslovakia; they will delight all those who enjoy for example the Bartok and Kodaly arrangements of East European folk material. Included in ABRSM Piano Grade 1 & 2 Syllabus 2017-2018 alternative pieces.

24 Melodische Etuden Op.201 by Cornelius Gurlitt. Klage is included as an alternative piece on ABRSM Piano Grade 4 syllabus 2017-2018