Exams/Trinity/Trinity · Grade 4
Set pieces and reviews
Trinity College London Grade 4 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
D major · 116 bpm
Musette in D, BWV Anh. 126
attrib. J. S. Bach
The *Musette in D* from the *Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach* is one of the most-played pieces in the early-grade Baroque repertoire.
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C major · 132 bpm
Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 1 — first movement
Muzio Clementi
Clementi was the figure who made Beethoven's London publishing career — his publishing house brought the late piano sonatas to print — and his teaching pieces have been continuously in use since the eighteenth century.
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A minor · 138 bpm
The Wild Horseman (No. 8 from Album for the Young, Op. 68)
Robert Schumann
Schumann wrote *Album for the Young, Op.
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G minor · 96 bpm
Polonaise in G minor, BWV Anh. 119
attrib. J. S. Bach
The polonaise was a Polish processional dance — slow triple metre, characteristically rhythmic — that crossed into the Baroque suite alongside the gavotte and the bourrée.
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A minor · 152 bpm
Tarantella (No. 14 from 25 Melodious Studies, Op. 45)
Stephen Heller
Heller was a Hungarian-French composer whose teaching studies have remained in continuous use since the mid-nineteenth century.
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G major · 132 bpm
Valse Mignonne (from Forest Scenes, Op. 66)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer of African and English descent whose music — particularly the *Hiawatha* trilogy — made him one of the most-performed living composers in turn-of-the-century Britain.
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G · 132 bpm
Folk Dance (No. 92 from Mikrokosmos, vol. 4)
Béla Bartók
Bartók's *Mikrokosmos* — six volumes of progressive piano pieces written between 1926 and 1939 for his son Péter — is one of the central pedagogical achievements of the twentieth century.
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C major · 132 bpm
Boogie (from Microjazz Collection 2)
Christopher Norton
Norton's *Microjazz Collection 2* sits a step above the first volume in technical demand and gives students a real introduction to the boogie-woogie idiom — a piano blues style that evolved in 1920s Chicago and Kansas City rent-party rooms and that became the foundation of much later rock-and-roll piano playing..
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A major · 76 bpm
River Flows in You
Yiruma (arr. various)
*River Flows in You* was released by the Korean pianist-composer Yiruma in 2001 as part of the album *First Love*, and the piece has become one of the most-streamed solo piano tracks of the twenty-first century.
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Other set pieces
The remaining pieces on the official Trinity Grade 4 repertoire list. Editorial reviews for these are in preparation; for now, the full scores and notes appear in the official syllabus book.
- Prelude in C, BWV 939Johann Sebastian Bach
- Evening in the Country (from 10 Easy Pieces)Béla Bartók
- L'Harmonie des Anges (No. 21 from Op. 100)Friedrich Burgmüller
- Mazurka in F, Op. 68 No. 3Frédéric Chopin
- Pièce romantique, Op. 9 No. 1Cécile Chaminade
- Slumber Song (from Op. 101)Cornelius Gurlitt
- Air in B♭ (from Suite No. 7)George Frideric Handel
- The Avalanche (Op. 45 No. 2)Stephen Heller
- A Little Joke (No. 6 from Op. 39)Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1 — VivaceFriedrich Kuhlau
- Children's Piece, Op. 72 No. 1Felix Mendelssohn
- Latin Vacation (from Microjazz)Christopher Norton
- Albumblatt, Op. 58 No. 4Ludwig Schytte
- The Happy Farmer (from Op. 68)Robert Schumann
- Italian Song (from Op. 39)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Holiday in Paris (from Connections)Christopher Norton
- Après-midi (from Really Easy Jazzin' About)Pam Wedgwood
Syllabus sections
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