I've dug outmy old exam results and would really like to know what I played, but other than my grade 5, they only list the numbers and not the names of the pieces. Is there anywhere that I might be able to find the historic syllabuses?

I randomly have one from about 1998 if that's any use?

Thanks, have you got the entire syllabus? I'm looking for oboe '95-'96 so it depends when the syllabus changed...

Yeah, I do. It covers from 1998 - 1999. I doubt many changes will have occurred. Tell me a Grade and I'll tell you the pieces

It's worth a try, thanks.

Grade 2 A7, B1 & C4 - '95
Grade 3 A2, B8 & C4 - '96

Grade 2
A7 - J.J. Rousseau - Reverie from 'Oboe Music to Enjoy'
B1 - Mary Chandler - Habanera from '3 Dance Studies'
C4 - Sullivan - Poor Wandering One from 'Melodies For Pleasure'

Grade 3
A2 - Schumann - First Loss from 'Second Book of Oboe Solos'
B8 - Tchaikovsky - Reverie - 9 Short Pieces from '3 Centuries'
C4 - Hinke - Elementary School (Peters P-2418)

I hope that helps

Thanks for that

Unfortunately I don't think it's the right syllabus. It's a shame they don't have them on the site; although I guess most people probably want to forget their exams after they've done them

Aww that's a shame it was worth a shot I guess! Hope you manage to find out the information you require

If you email the board asking for a syllabus for a specific year they're generally quite helpful. They won't give you the whole back catalogue of syllabi but single requests are usually honoured.

I will give that a try, thanks!

I've got the oboe 1996/97 syllabus, and the syllabus is as above for that book, though it says that the oboe syllabus changed in January 1996 : so my suspicion is you're looking for the 1994/95 book, and I'll also guess you did grade 3 from the old syllabus in the first session of '96.

Apparently I took G3 in June, so maybe the G3 is right and I'm just not recognising the pieces! does it have a study number for the Hinke piece?

It says no. 8 or no. 12. I hope this helps.

Thanks again.

Can I be cheeky and ask you to see if it has the page numbers for the hinke studies as well? i think the G3 stuff is correct and I've just got my old music back

Don't suppose anyone has the piano syllabus from 1986?


That one is definitely all a blur

This prompted me to have a look through my old piano exam books, had a lovely play through of my old Grade 7 pieces from 1984! So weird - a couple of them played just like I had played them yesterday, my hands just knew where to go! Now if only I could learn my diploma pieces that easily 28 years later!!!

If of any use to anyone I have the following piano exam books.....

Grade 2 1979
Grade 3 1980
Grade 4 1981
Grade 5 1982
Grade 6 1983
Grade 7 1984.

It says p.9 or p.10

I have the Grade 6 piano book for 1986. It also has the main lists for other grades listed in the front (though not the alternative pieces). Which grade would you like?

Thanks so much! I've found the one I did and it's even got notes over it from my exam

I would dearly love to know what pieces I played for grade 7 piano in 1980. It was list A and I'm sure that the first piece was a Bach fugue. Does anyone have the book?

One of my favourite finds when I restarted the recorder was finding the Trinity exam pieces book for the last exam I'd taken - Grade 4 treble recorder in 1990ish. I worked out my list A piece from the music, my list B piece from the title (I remembered a discussion with my teacher about how the title related to the music/style), and the list C piece...well, that turned out to be the bit of music I'd been humming when not thinking about anything else, for the preceeding 16 years or so (Chaconne from Purcell's Faerie Queen!)

Aww, I'm glad that I could be of help

Grade 8 please I did play pieces from the main lists. Thank you

Grade 8 piano 1986 - one from each group (at the time the only Grade which wasn't a choice between 2 programmes with alternatives only for the last piece).

Group A
Bach - Prelude & Fugue in E, book 1 no 9
Bach - Prelude in G BWV 902
Handel - Suite No 6 in F# minor: third movement, Allegro
Mendelssohn - Prelude and Fugue in D, Op 35 No 2
Scarlatti - Sonata in F minor Kp519, L475

Group B
Bartok - Suite Op14, 1st, 2nd and 3rd movements
Beethoven - Andante Favori, WoO 57
Clementi - Sonata in D, Op 25 no 6
Haydn - Sonata in C minor Hob XVI/20
Mozart - Sonata in Bb, K570

Group C
Brahms - Romanze No 5 from Klavierstucke Op 118
Chopin - Waltz in Ab, Op 69 No 1
Debussy - Serenade of the Doll from Children's Corner
Faure - Improvisation in C#minor, No 5 from Pieces Breves pour Piano, Op 85
Poulenc - La desinvolture et la discretion: No 3 from Les Soirees de Nazelles
Rodrigo - Sonada de Adios
Schumann - Herbage from Waldscenen Op 82
Sibelius - Romance in Db, Op 24 No 9
Tchaikovsky - December Noel Op37a No 12

Does that jog your memory at all?