Set pieces and reviews

List A · F major · 100 bpm

Fireworks Minuet (from Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351)

George Frideric Handel (arr. Alan Bullard)

The minuet sits inside Handel's 1749 *Music for the Royal Fireworks*, an open-air suite commissioned by King George II to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

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List A · F major · 92 bpm

Melody in F, Op. 190 No. 27

Louis Köhler

Köhler was a Königsberg pianist and pedagogue whose teaching collections — *Praktischer Lehrgang*, the Op.

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List A · C major · 96 bpm

Muss i denn (Traditional German)

Traditional German (arr. for ABRSM)

*Muss i denn, muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus* is a Swabian folk song from the early nineteenth century — Friedrich Silcher's 1827 arrangement is the version most German speakers know.

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List B · G major · 72 bpm

A Song of Erin (No. 8 from First Year Pieces)

Thomas Dunhill

Dunhill was an English composer and a teacher at the Royal College of Music — a contemporary of Stanford and Parry, more remembered now for pedagogy than for the symphonic work he hoped would carry his name.

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List B · C major · 72 bpm

Remember Me (Lullaby) — from Coco

Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez

This is the lullaby reprise of *Remember Me* from Pixar's *Coco* (2017) — not the mariachi version that opens the film, but the quiet bedside arrangement Héctor sings to Coco as a child.

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List B · A minor · 76 bpm

Winter (from Allsorts)

Bernadette Marmion

Marmion is an Irish pianist and composer whose teaching collection *Allsorts* (Editions Bim) has become a quiet staple of UK and Australian piano grades — pieces that sound modern without making a beginner negotiate twentieth-century harmony from cold.

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List C · A minor · 120 bpm

Cyberspace Detective

Amit Anand

Anand is an Indian-British composer whose teaching pieces appear regularly across UK and Australian grade syllabuses.

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List C · G major · 108 bpm

The Wind (from A Child's Garden of Verses)

Chee-Hwa Tan

Chee-Hwa Tan is a Malaysian-American composer and pianist (Singapore-born; teaches in the United States) whose *A Child's Garden of Verses* takes its inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 collection of children's poems.

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List C · C major · 120 bpm

Berry's Smoothie

Nikki Yeoh

Nikki Yeoh is a British jazz pianist and composer — she has played with Steve Williamson, Cleveland Watkiss and Andy Sheppard, and she writes pedagogically with the same fluency she plays.

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