Exams/Trinity/Trinity · Grade 3
Set pieces and reviews
Trinity College London Grade 3 piano runs on the 2023+ syllabus, in force for 2024–26 exams. The repertoire is a single list with no List A/B/C split; candidates choose three pieces (one of which may be a free-choice piece or own composition that fits the level). The list itself is the property of Trinity College London; references on this page are factual citations of each composition.
Exam pieces — editorial reviews
G major · 120 bpm
Minuet in G major, BWV Anh. 116
attrib. J. S. Bach (now Christian Petzold)
This G-major minuet from the *Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach* (1725) is the slightly less famous companion to BWV Anh.
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G major · 116 bpm
Écossaise in G, WoO 23
Ludwig van Beethoven
The écossaise was a brisk Scottish-flavoured dance in 2/4 that swept the Vienna of Beethoven's middle years; he wrote several short examples for the dance halls.
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F major · 132 bpm
Burleske (No. 6 from Notenbuch für Wolfgang)
Leopold Mozart
Leopold Mozart compiled the *Notenbuch für Wolfgang* — a manuscript book of small keyboard pieces — for his seven-year-old son in 1762.
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C major · 132 bpm
Study in C (No. 13 from 100 Progressive Studies, Op. 139)
Carl Czerny
Czerny's *100 Progressive Studies, Op.
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F major · 96 bpm
The Young Shepherdess (No. 3 from Albumleaves for the Young, Op. 101)
Cornelius Gurlitt
Gurlitt was a Hamburg-based composer whose teaching pieces have remained in continuous pedagogical use since their nineteenth-century publication.
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A minor · 144 bpm
Scherzo (No. 13 from 24 Pieces for Children, Op. 39)
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Kabalevsky's *24 Pieces for Children, Op.
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C major · 100 bpm
Lazy Bear Blues (from Microjazz Collection 2)
Christopher Norton
Christopher Norton's *Microjazz* series — three collections of short pieces in jazz, blues, rock and Latin styles — has been a fixture of contemporary piano teaching since the first volume appeared in 1983.
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A minor · 132 bpm
Sneaky Business
Martha Mier
Martha Mier is an American teaching composer whose character pieces have been published widely through the Alfred Music catalogue.
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A♭ major · 138 bpm
Let It Go (from Frozen)
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez (arr. Alastair Gavin)
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote *Let It Go* for the 2013 Disney film *Frozen*, and the song became one of the most-streamed tracks of the decade and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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Other set pieces
The remaining pieces on the official Trinity Grade 3 repertoire list. Editorial reviews for these are in preparation; for now, the full scores and notes appear in the official syllabus book.
- SolfeggiettoCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Schwäbisch (from Musikalische Nebenstunden)Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
- Madrigal (from Album pour les touts-petits)Mélanie Bonis
- Arabesque (No. 2 from 25 Études faciles, Op. 100)Friedrich Burgmüller
- Prelude in A, Op. 28 No. 7Frédéric Chopin
- The Hunt (from Albumleaves for the Young, Op. 101)Cornelius Gurlitt
- Sarabande in D minor, HWV 437George Frideric Handel
- Avalanche (from Op. 45)Stephen Heller
- Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1 — AllegroFriedrich Kuhlau
- Kiss the RainLin Hai, arr. Chris Hussey
- I GiorniLudovico Einaudi, arr. Chris Hussey
- Tubular Bells (theme)Mike Oldfield, arr. Alastair Gavin
- Dance of the MarionettesAlec Rowley
- Soldier's March (from Album for the Young, Op. 68)Robert Schumann
- The Sick Doll (from Children's Album, Op. 39)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Intermezzo No. 1Manuel María Ponce
- After Hours (selection)Pam Wedgwood
Syllabus sections
- Scales
- Sight-reading
- Aural
- Theory
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