Klarinet Archive - Posting 000032.txt from 2005/06

From: "Victor Chen" <pc12@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Italian Symphony
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:53:25 -0400

When do people advance through these grade levels? Is there an age limit of
any sort?

Aside from serving as a marker of technical proficiency in your instrument,
do these Grade levels have more "official" functions? For example, must one
pass Grade 8 before he or she is eligible for entrance to music colleges?

Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Italian Symphony

> Matthew Lloyd wrote:
>
>> As an indication, the Mozart Concerto is Grade 8.
>
>
> 1st and 3rd movements. The Adagio comes up at Grade 7, or did back when I
> was taking these things. I personally don't think it's any easier,
> although the fingers don't move so fast. :-)
>
> Actually I skipped 7 and went from 6 to 8, for which I played the Rondo
> from the Mozart Concerto and the last movement of the Arnold Cooke Sonata.
> When I was selecting pieces I had spotted that the Stravinsky 3 Pieces
> were on the study list; I didn't know them (or Stravinsky) well at the
> time but thought it would be exciting to try to play something by old
> Igor. So I bought them and brought them to my lesson to discuss with my
> teacher.
>
> He looked at them, counted the number of pages. "1, 2, 3, 4... How much
> did you pay for this? £5 for 4 pages of music?"
>
> :-P
>
>
>
>
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