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RCM Level 8 piano pieces

21 pieces on the RCM Level 8 lists of the Piano Syllabus, 2022 Edition are in the library, at levels 3 to 5 here. Each opens free to print, with easier versions made from the score itself, or to play at your MIDI keyboard with every note marked.

Pieces

21

Levels

3 to 5

Key signatures

4 flats to 4 sharps

Length

20 to 177 bars

List A: Baroque

• Invention No. 10 in G, BWV 781
  Johann Sebastian Bach 1 sharp, 9/8, 32 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 10 in G Major, BWV 781
• Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782
  Johann Sebastian Bach 2 flats, 4/4, 23 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 782
• Invention No. 12 in A, BWV 783
  Johann Sebastian Bach 3 sharps, 12/8, 21 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783
• Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
  Johann Sebastian Bach no sharps or flats, 4/4, 25 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784
• Invention No. 14 in B flat, BWV 785
  Johann Sebastian Bach 2 flats, 4/4, 20 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 14 in B flat Major, BWV 785
• Invention No. 15 in B minor, BWV 786
  Johann Sebastian Bach 2 sharps, 4/4, 22 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 786
• Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV 773
  Johann Sebastian Bach 3 flats, 4/4, 27 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 773
• Invention No. 5 in E flat, BWV 776
  Johann Sebastian Bach 3 flats, 4/4, 32 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 5 in E flat Major, BWV 776
• Invention No. 6 in E, BWV 777
  Johann Sebastian Bach 4 sharps, 3/8, 124 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777
• Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778
  Johann Sebastian Bach 1 sharp, 4/4, 23 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 778
• Little Prelude in D, BWV 936
  Johann Sebastian Bach 2 sharps, 2/4, 96 bars
  Listed as Little Prelude in D Major, BWV 936
• Invention No. 9 in F minor, BWV 780
  Johann Sebastian Bach 4 flats, 3/4, 34 bars
  Listed as Invention No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 780

List B: Classical

• Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 5: I
  Muzio Clementi 1 sharp, 4/4, 169 bars
  Listed as Sonatina in G Major, op. 36, no. 5, 1st movement
• Sonata in C, K. 545: I
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart no sharps or flats, 4/4, 146 bars
  Listed as Sonata in C Major, K 545, 1st movement

List C: Romantic

• Consolation No. 1
  Franz Liszt 4 sharps, 4/4, 25 bars
  Listed as Consolation No. 1, S 172
• Knecht Ruprecht, Op. 68 No. 12
  Robert Schumann no sharps or flats, 2/4, 112 bars
  Listed as Knecht Ruprecht, op. 68, no. 12
• Prelude in B minor, Op. 28 No. 6
  Frédéric Chopin 2 sharps, 3/4, 26 bars
  Listed as Prelude in B Minor, op. 28, no. 6
• Song of the Lark, from The Seasons
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 2 flats, 2/4, 46 bars
  Listed as March (Song of the Lark), from The Seasons, op. 37b
• Waltz in B minor
  Frédéric Chopin 2 sharps, 3/4, 177 bars
  Listed as Waltz in B Minor, op. posth. 69, no. 2

List D: Post-Romantic, 20th and 21st century

• Gnossienne No. 3
  Erik Satie no sharps or flats, 4/4, 54 bars
  Listed as Gnossienne No. 3

Etudes

• The School of Velocity, Op. 299 No. 3
  Carl Czerny no sharps or flats, 4/4, 24 bars
  Listed as Etude in C Major, op. 299, no. 3

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