The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Vera Gray and others.

Carefully selected by Janet Way, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 5 saxophonist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.

Each volume contains:

19 pieces & short studies, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip

grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises

brand new sight-reading activities

newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks

a piano accompaniment booklet

Packaged with a CD of full performance demonstrations, piano backing tracks, and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.

Janet Way is an experienced performer and teacher. She is a tutor for the LRAM woodwind teaching course at the Royal Academy of Music, and has worked as a mentor and diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She is founder and director of the internationally-acclaimed Oxford Flute Summer School.

Binding: Saddle stitching

Content text:

Bernstein: Tonight (from ‘West Side Story’)

Berbiguier: Duo

Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin

Gershwin: ‘The half of it it, dearie’ Blues

Gariboldi: Study

Piazzolla: Duo

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Telemann: A tempo guisto (from ‘Fantasia No. 10’)

Vinci: Adagio and Allegro (from ‘Sonata No. 1 for flute’)

Schumann: Three Romances Op. 94, No. 2

Aural Awareness - Music Theory

Scale Spot:

B minor

F# minor

C# minor and E major

Dominant 7th & diminished 7th

Sight-Reading

ISBN: 978-0-85162-985-8

ISMN: 979-0-060-12876-9

Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, London

UPC: 888680055684

page number: 72

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