Autumn 2008
Session
Many thanks to
all tutors and candidates who took part in a successful Spring
2008 session ranging from Glasgow to Edinburgh to Stornoway this past March.
Entries are
now being taken for graded exams or ungraded performance assessments in fiddle,
accordion (including melodeons), Scottish harp, cello and viola at our next
scheduled session, which will take place from Monday 27
October to Wednesday 29 October 2008 at RSAMD
premises.
The deadline
for entries is Monday 22 September
2008.
Exams and
assessments at other locations around Scotland are likely to be arranged to
coincide with this session, depending on demand; if you are a teacher,
instructor or parent, live too far from Glasgow and wish instead to request
an examiner's visit or videoconference link to your school or area, please
contact us in the first instance. A minimum of 10-12 candidates in any one
discipline usually applies to make the visit economically feasible. Such
visits are can be arranged at any time of year, depending on an examiner’s
availability. Please get in touch if you are
interested.
Publications
As usual, any
as-yet unpublished music listed in our syllabuses is available to download
directly from Scottish music publisher Taigh na Teud (www.scotlandsmusic.com). RSAMD and
Taigh na Teud are working together to produced printed collections of repertoire
available wherever Taigh na Teud publications are sold; the first series, for
Scottish harp, should be available from August 2008 and those for fiddle and
accordion by late 2008 – early 2009. We hope these collections will prove
useful not just to tutors and candidates but to all who enjoy the breadth and
diversity of traditional Scottish music.
Best wishes to
all for the summer!
Josh
Dickson
Graded Exams
Manager
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