ABRSM: Piano Exam Pieces 2017 & 2018, ABRSM Grade 5

About the book

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM’s 2017 & 2018 Grade 5 Piano syllabus. Key features: • three pieces from each of Lists A, B and C • appealing and varied repertoire • carefully edited and clearly presented throughout • helpful information about the pieces and the exam Recordings All of the pieces on the Grade 5 syllabus have been recorded by Nikki Iles, Dinara Klinton, Robert Thompson and Richard Uttley. The recordings are available on CD

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The nine pieces in each book cover a broad range of styles and benefit from typically sleek and professional presentation. * The Pianist * All in all, the Grades 1-5 pieces in the new ABRSM syllabus have something to delight and stimulate every pupil: pieces that will support teaching effectively and enjoyably throughout 2017 and 2018 * Music Teacher * ABRSM have produced an outstanding resource. The books are lavishly presented, brilliantly edited, and provide some outstanding additions to the pianist's repertoire across all levels of amateur and student ability. * Pianodao.com * These new ABRSM volumes strike an excellent balance with mixing the familiar with the less well known. The International range of composers is particularly welcome. These are useful collections for exam candidates as well as players looking for relatively economical graded anthologies to develop their studies. * International Piano *

Richard Jones Biography

Richard Jones is a professor of computer systems in the School of Computing at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He earned a B.A. in mathematics from Oxford University and an M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Kent. He spent a few years teaching at school and college before returning to higher education at the University of Kent. Antony Hosking is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. He earned a B.Sc. in mathematical sciences from the University of Adelaide, Australia, an M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts. His work is in the area of programming language design and implementation, with specific interests in database and persistent programming languages, object-oriented database systems, dynamic memory management, compiler optimizations, and architectural support for programming languages and applications. Eliot Moss is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned a B.S.E.E., an M.S.E.E., and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After four years of military service, Dr. Moss joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He works in the area of programming languages and their implementation and has built garbage collectors since 1978. In addition to his research on automatic memory management, he is known for his work on persistent programming languages, virtual machine implementation, and transactional memory. He worked with IBM researchers to license the Jikes RVM Java virtual machine for academic research, which eventually led to its release as an open source project. ... Read full biography