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Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by well tempered on 11/20/2024, 7:24 am

I have an exchange student that is a great piano player. Are their any grade 4/5 pieces with a piano part?

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by band on 12/4/2024, 10:04 am, in reply to "Piano on grade 4 or 5"

As others have stated it seems there are a ton of pieces on the pml 4/5 with a great piano part. Specifically from my experience teaching a high school second band and occasionally helping with the top band, here are pieces that we've done that fit the bill

Grade 4-

Khan by Giroux
Seal Lullaby by Whitacre

Grade 5-

Danzon no. 2 by Marquez

Children's March by Grainger (grade 4? can't remember)

Aurora Awakes by Mackey

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by ATX on 11/22/2024, 12:50 pm, in reply to "Piano on grade 4 or 5"

With Heart and Voice - Gillingham
Swirling Prisms - Balmages
Handel in the Strand / almost all Grainger
Almost all Maslanka

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Um... on 11/22/2024, 11:14 am, in reply to "Piano on grade 4 or 5"

There really are a bunch of pieces that fit the bill on both lists. I don't Snerk is being a jerk with their statement. Can you be more specific with your question?

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Snerk on 11/20/2024, 12:23 pm, in reply to "Piano on grade 4 or 5"

(Gestures broadly to 2/3rd sof the Grade 4/5 list added in the past fifteen years)

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Uncalled For on 11/24/2024, 6:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5"

A more helpful response would have been to just not.

I really hope you find a productive outlet for all of your negative energy.

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Snerk on 11/25/2024, 9:51 am, in reply to "Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5"

Pot, meet kettle.

You sound mad.

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Thanks on 11/20/2024, 8:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5"

Knew I could count on a reply like this. Nothing like helpful people right? You do know that the pml doesn’t list instrumentation right? So unless you have the piece already you wouldn’t know if it had piano in it.

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Yeah but on 11/21/2024, 6:17 am, in reply to "Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5"

Sort by UIL number and start listening from the highest number (most recent). Jw Pepper has instrumentation and recordings, they even have a list of the Texas (and other states) pml.

We should encourage more individual research.

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Snerk on 11/21/2024, 12:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5"

Furthermore, one can listen to the pieces and make a judgement, considering many of them have follow-along scores on Youtube.

Or people can look into books like the Teaching Music series, which have score studies of hundreds of songs, and which sit on the shelves of many band directors.

Re: Piano on grade 4 or 5

Posted by Noisy Wheels of Joy on 11/20/2024, 11:56 am, in reply to "Piano on grade 4 or 5"

Noisy Wheels of Joy

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