ABRSM

Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Saxophone
Level: 3

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 defunte, 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 [Noel Coward]
• Listen Up! [Charlotte Harding]