Creative activities to introduce Allegretto, op. 125/3 by Anton Diabelli

A popular classical piece in the current ABRSM Grade 1 syllabus

It’s really important to connect exam pieces to a student’s wider development as a musician. Here’s a set of useful activities for Diabelli’s Allegretto to enable you to do just that!

This is a popular piece on ABRSM’s Grade 1 syllabus. Here are the first eight bars:

The activities below:

• reinforce the connection between the piece and its scale, C major

• practise ensemble playing

• practise playing in time with a recording (click here or scan the QR code for the recording)

• review staccato and legato articulations

• improve aural skills (e.g. play your student one of the five improvisation ideas and ask them to identify which one you played)

• practise melodic improvisation

• give them a springboard into their own classical-style composition

Click here to download the activities for free as a PDF.

Let me know how you get on!

If you’re not familiar with the piece, the wonderful Julian Lambert has a nice video demonstration here:

I hope this is useful, and I’d love to hear any compositions that your students have been inspired to create! Send them over to me at hello@pianocreativity.com.

I’ll be creating more of these Creative Introductions worksheets for popular exam pieces. If you have a particular piece you’d like to request, let me know!