This book brings together selected exam pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and audio downloads, to support ABRSM’s Grade 3 Saxophone syllabus from 2022.
Key features:
· Nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C
· Classic repertoire and newly commissioned pieces and arrangements
· Piano accompaniments for both E- and B- instruments included
· Scales and arpeggios, and sample sight-reading tests, for requirements from the current syllabus
· Audio performances of the nine pieces on alto saxophone and piano by expert musicians, plus accompaniment-only tracks for both E- and B- instruments for use when practising (download code included in the book)
The Exam Pack is an ideal resource for preparation for ABRSM’s Practical Grade 3 Saxophone exam, as well as providing an excellent toolkit for the general development of technical skills at this level.
Contents:
Le petit chien (No. 11 from The Good Tempered Saxophone) [Mike Mower]
The Miller of the Dee, arr. Hywel Davies [Trad. English]
Allegro (first movement from Concerto in E, 'La Primavera', Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269), arr. David Blackwell [Antonio Vivaldi]
Swan Song [Lloyd Coleman]
Pavane pour une infante défunte, arr. Alan Bullard [Maurice Ravel]
The Church at Errislannan [Althea Talbot-Howard]
America (from West Side Story), arr. Peter Lawrance [Leonard Bernstein]
My Horse has Cast a Shoe (from Pacific 1860), arr. Ian Denley [Noël Coward]
Listen Up! [Charlotte Harding]
