ABRSM

Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Saxophone
Level: 2

This book brings together selected exam pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and audio downloads, to support ABRSM's Grade 2 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 2 Saxophone exam, as well as providing an excellent toolkit for the general development of technical skills at this level.

Contents:

• Bourree (second movement from Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351), arr. Alan Bullard [George Frideric Handel]
• In Sherwood livde stout Robin Hood (from Fourth Booke of Ayres), arr. Ian Denley [Robert Jones]
• Spiritoso [Nilia Velzquez]
• Jupiter (from The Planets, Op. 32), arr. David Blackwell [Gustav Holst]
• Abendsegen (from Hansel und Gretel), arr. Peter Gritton [Engelbert Humperdinck]
• Xhosa Fantasy [Bongani Ndodana-Breen]
• Horseshoe [Beverley Calland]
• The Bare Necessities (from The Jungle Book), arr. Peter Lawrance [Terry Gilkyson]
• Flying High (No. 2 from Rhythm & Rag for Saxophone) [Alan Haughton]