ABRSM

Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Saxophone
Level: 5

This book brings together selected exam pieces, scales and arpeggios, sight-reading and audio downloads, to support ABRSM's Grade 5 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 5 Saxophone exam, as well as providing an excellent toolkit for the general development of technical skills at this level.

Contents:

• Tarantella (No. 41 from Vollstandige Clarinett-Schule, Part 1, Op. 63), arr. Alan Bullard [Carl Baermann]
• Danse (from La vie pour le Tsar), arr. Vladimir Ivanov [Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka]
• Saxsequential [Paul Harris]
• Celtic V (No. 5 from Celtic Collage) [Keri Degg]
• Andante (first movement from Sonata for the Harp - with obbligato Flute), arr. Althea Talbot-Howard [Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges]
• All Because of You [Karen Street]
• The Ragtime Dance (A Stop-Time Two Step), arr. David Blackwell [Scott Joplin]
• Through the Trees [Cassie Kinoshi]
• Festival Sax (No. 35 from Sixty for Sax) [Alan Bullard]