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Various systems grading difficulty of pieces

There are various systems grading difficulty of pieces. Rough guides, YMMV.

Hinson’s Guide to the Pianists Repertoire and Friskin/Freundlich’s Music for the Piano. They both use level of difficulty as: Easy, Moderate, Moderately Difficult and Difficult

Graded 1-5: https://www.pianolibrary.org/about/statistics/

Henle has a rating system of 1-9

The Great Britain ABRSM has a respected system.

Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music RCM ranked music repertoire for each instrument: https://shop.rcmusic.com/collections/celebration-series

From a colleague:

“At some point, I tried to create playlists for those graded performance pieces in the RCM piano syllabus (the 2015 edition) on Spotify. The playlists are incomplete because some pieces can’t be found (or has become unavailable), and I only managed to make three of them (RCM-9 through RCM-ARCT, mostly because those are easier to find. :

And through Spotify’s recommendation engine, I became aware of an Australian system, the AMEB (https://www.ameb.edu.au/shop/syllabuses-study-resources/digital-syllabuses-2020/2020-piano-syllabus.html) that provides music albums for their graded pieces. For example, here is one — AMEB piano for leisure, Series 4/Grade 8: https://open.spotify.com/album/0jfhzdSOvVotlbH77MD8k3?si=ZUTU4VocTRiSXA3LU1tcLQ  If you use Spotify, you can find more by searching for “AMEB piano” albums.”
Posted by jmm on Saturday, October 17, 2020, at 11:53 am. Filed under books, Literature, resources. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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