ABRSM

Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Saxophone
Level: 4

This book brings together selected exam pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and audio downloads, to support ABRSM's Grade 4 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 4 Saxophone exam, as well as providing an excellent toolkit for the general development of technical skills at this level.

Contents:

• Valse sous le vent (No. 1 from Couleurs Caraibe) [Valerie Rousse & Joel Littorie]
• Allegro (fourth movement from Sonata in F, HWV 369, Op. 1 No. 11), arr. David Blackwell [George Frideric Handel]
• A la Gavotte (No. 1 from Street Beats) [Karen Street]
• Chanson de matin, Op. 15 No. 2, arr. Jerry Lanning [Edward Elgar]
• Bess, you is my woman now (from Porgy and Bess), arr. Nikki Iles [George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward & Ira Gershwin]
• Pas de deux [Errollyn Wallen]
• Abracadabra [Ruth Byrchmore]
• Tango (from All Styles) [Mark Fielding]
• Entry of the Gladiators, Op. 68, arr. Ian Denley [Julius Fucik]