Syllabus updates

The current Brass syllabus has been extended to 2021.

Brass teachers should keep hold of their copies of the 2017–2020 syllabus booklet to refer to throughout 2021. The individual instrumental syllabuses are also available online.

A new syllabus is being developed to take effect from January 2022 and advance notice of planned changes will be posted here during 2021.

What’s new

• New repertoire lists and scale requirements at all grades
• Repertoire:
• More choice than ever before, with the lists extended to ten pieces (30 pieces in total per grade)
• Duet option included for the first time – up to Grade 3
• Revised list structure
• Scales requirements
• A more realistic and manageable assessment load, with the focus instead on technical development and progression
• Initial Grade exam introduced – a pre-Grade 1 assessment following the same structure, content and assessment criteria as ABRSM’s existing graded music exams (three pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and aural tests)

Syllabus validity

Piano syllabus 2021 & 2022 comes into effect on 1 January 2021. This means:

• Candidates can begin to present the pieces and scales requirements from the new syllabus;
• Candidates can continue to present the pieces and scales requirements from the 2019 & 2020 syllabus during the overlap period (see below);
• Sight-reading and aural test requirements remain exactly the same as for the 2019 & 2020 syllabus.

Syllabus overlap

For candidates wishing to present pieces and scale requirements from the 2019 & 2020 syllabus, a one-year overlap period (up to 31 December 2021) now applies to all countries – including the UK and Ireland.

All three pieces and the scales requirements must be prepared from the same syllabus.

主要变化

考纲有效期