Piano Mix Book 1, Grade 1-2 (ABRSM)

Piano Mix is packed full of brilliant music that has been specially arranged for easy piano. It’s a whirlwind of styles and genres from centuries ago through to the present day, and the repertoire reflects the type of music in our Piano syllabuses.

In Piano Mix 1 the pieces are mostly at Grade 1 standard, helping pianists progress to Grade 2 towards the end of the book. The series has been compiled and edited by David Blackwell with arrangements by Alan Bullard, Nikki Iles, Christopher Norton and Tim Richards to name a few. Every arrangement is enjoyable to play because it fits well under the pianist’s hands while remaining faithful to the original work.

SHEET MUSIC

• Fireworks Minuet: from Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 [George Frideric Handel]
• Lullaby: No. 4 from Five Songs, Op. 49 [Johannes Brahms]
• Strawberry Leaves [English Waits’ tune]
• The Schoolmaster: from Symphony No. 55, Hob. I:55 [Joseph Haydn]
• Farmer’s Song [Trad. Slovakian]
• March: from Rinaldo, HWV 7 [George Frideric Handel]
• Funeral March of a Marionette [Charles-François Gounod]
• Lute Song: from The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres (1597) [John Dowland]
• In the Alps [Trad. Swiss]
• I want to be ready [Trad. Spiritual]
• La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) [Giuseppe Verdi]
• El noi de la mare [Trad. Catalan]
• Fever [Dámaso Zabalza]
• March of the Toreador: from Carmen [Georges Bizet]
• Sing, Cuckoo! [Anon. English]
• A Little Walk with Schubert: from Violin Sonatina in D, D. 384 [Franz Schubert]
• Trumpet Tune: from King Arthur, Z. 628 [Henry Purcell]
• A Duet with Mozart: No. 10 from 12 Duos, K. 487 [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• Nocturne: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61 [Felix Mendelssohn]
• Ja-Da [Bob Carleton]
• The Music o’ Spey [James Scott Skinner]
• St. James Infirmary Blues [Joe Primrose]
• Royal March of the Lion: from The Carnival of the Animals [Camille Saint-Saëns]
• Bees-Wax Rag [Harry J. Lincoln]