Grade 1-Grade By Grade Alto Saxophone: Grade 1 - Book/CD draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical contemporary and educational repertoire highlighting composers such as Serge Prokofieff Dmitri Shostakovich Karl Jenkins Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall Vera Gray and others. This practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 1 Alto Saxophone and creates the perfect package for teaching exam preparation and performance all carefully selected by JanetWay. Grade By Grade Alto Saxophone: Grade 1 - Book/CD includes:   19 pieces & short studies each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip. Grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises. Selection of sight-reading activities. Aural awareness tasks. Piano accompaniment booklet. CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.  

Grade 3-Janet Way's Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical contemporary and educational repertoire highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff Dmitri Shostakovich Karl Jenkins Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall Vera Gray and others.This practical anthology of carefully selected pieces provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 3 saxophonist and creates the perfect package for teaching exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:19 pieces & shortstudies each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip.Grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises.Brand new sight-reading activitiesNewly-commissioned aural awareness tasks.A Piano accompaniment booklet. This book for Grade 3 Alto Saxophone players includes the pieces Gavotte by Couperin Fascinating Rhythm by Gershwin Bouree by Bach and more.Janet Way: Grade By Grade - Alto Saxophone (Grade 3) comes complete with a CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.

Grade 4-Janet Way's Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical contemporary and educational repertoire highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff Dmitri Shostakovich Karl Jenkins Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall Vera Gray and others.This practical anthology of carefully selected pieces provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 4 saxophonist and creates the perfect package for teaching exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:19 pieces & shortstudies each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip.Grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises.Brand new sight-reading activitiesNewly-commissioned aural awareness tasks.A Piano accompaniment booklet. This book for Grade 4 Alto Saxophone players includes the pieces In A Sentimental Mood by Duke Ellington Fantasia In F# Minor by Georg Philipp Telemann Romance by Sergei Rachmaninoff and more.Janet Way: Grade By Grade - Alto Saxophone (Grade 4) comes complete with a CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.

Piano Reduction including solo part. Par DENISOV EDISON. The catalogue of Edison Denisov's works includes 16 concertos. It was a genre to which he returned time and again throughout his life, from the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra of 1972 to the Double Concerto for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra of 1996. In Denisov's music the role of the soloist, or rather the protagonist, is extraordinarily important, not so much for its virtuosity as for its confessional character. The solo part is a monologue distinguished by poetic diction and a very personal message from the composer. The dramaturgical conception of the Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, a reworking of the Viola Concerto of 1986, draws on traditional sonata form, thereby reaffirming the ubiquitous classicism in Denisov's thought. In this late work, we find all the typical features of his style: sinuous melodic lines layered into dense contrapuntal textures, and an interplay of orchestral colours, with pure sonorities contrasting with complex mixtures of sounds. It is a perfect dramaturgy that governs the evolution of the music to the very end. The first movement assumes the role of a sonata-allegro, with the standard formal sections of exposition, development, recapitulation and coda. The second movement is an Adagio for strings. The third takes the form of a little contrasting intermezzo that introduces both new thematic material and a new range of colours. Here tunefulness gives way to pointillism enriched with sonic effects. The only movement with a virtuosic solo part, its nervousness and inner tension set it worlds apart from the second and fourth movements that surround it. The fourth movement assumes the traditional form of a final set of variations. It is the dramaturgical and semantic heart of the concerto. The theme of the variations is Franz Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat major, op. 142, which in this case is 'born' from the celesta as the product of a dodecaphonic string cluster. This finale represents Denisov's homage to his great mentor, Schubert's music being for him a symbol of eternal and universal beauty. 'The attentive listener', Denisov stressed, 'will recognise that the Impromptu theme is already suggested very slowly in the course of the three preceding movements, not only thematically, but also psychologically. That's what makes the appearance of the Schubert theme sound so natural.' The variations relate to the variation genre less in their form than in their spiritual and conceptual metamorphoses. It is, one might say, 'music round about Schubert'. (Ekaterina Kouprovskaia-Denisova)/ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

New Edition 2012-18 pieces for Alto Saxophone and piano selected and edited by Peter Wastall now refreshed and repackaged to fulfil the needs of the next generation of musicians.Providing the perfect 'next step' for students reaching the end of Peter Wastall's award-winning Learn As You Play method books these collections of repertoire are ideally suited for students of Grade 3-5 standard.Each piece is now complemented by useful practice and performance tips. A newly-recorded CD of backing tracks is also included alongside the piano accompaniment.Content- A. Ilyinsky: Berceuse- R. Maltby: Heather on the Hill- F. Schubert: Serenade- J.S. Bach: Musette- W. Benson: Cantilena- A. Rubinstein: Melody- P. Harris: Foxtrot- H. Ferguson: Petit jeu- C. Evans: Sweet Corn- K.R. Cole: Hooligan Strain- A. Krori: Blue Funk- A. Ridout: Scherzo- C. Batton: A Lady in Blue- J. Gurewich: Czardas- P. Bouillon- A. Ktori: Soul-Track- C. Cowles: Myopic Mice- E. Wolf-Ferrari: Strimpellata

Eglogue Et Danse Pastorale?is a piece for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra by Renée Corniot (1901 1972). Dedicated to Marcel Mule it lasts 14 minutes and can be played by advanced players. The first section is slower than the second half and the full piece will require a strong endurance to play some of the Saxophone pieces in the second part as it includes some fast rhythms some accidental notes and alterations and some trills. It would be a perfect work to perform for a recital or a contest.

Let yourself be enchanted by the sound of the best known jazz ballads. Passionate sensuous and warm - the saxophone is just perfect for longing melancholy sounds. To begin the 'Schott Saxophone Lounge' series Dirko Juchem presents wonderful jazzy pieces - an absolute must for all saxophonists! The melodic idiomatic arrangements are all included on the accompanying CD played by the author himself.

Clémence de Grandval (1828-1907) est l'une des rares femmes dont les compositions furent données régulièrement en création, lors de la seconde moitié du XIXo siècle.Tout d'abord élève de Flotow, elle se perfectionna auprès de C. Saint-Saëns, qui lui prodigua de nombreux encouragements à persévérer dans cette voie, en dépit des préjugés sexistes de ses pairs.On lui doit de nombreuses oeuvres, touchant tous les genres : musique instrumentale, musique de chambre, musique symphonique, musique religieuse, opéra? Au concert, l'ensemble de sa production fut toujours très bien accueillie, tant par le grand public que par la critique.En 1878, elle signa un concerto pour hautbois à l'intention de Georges Gillet, professeur au Conservatoire. Ce même artiste est le dédicataire d'une suite de ' 4 morceaux ' pour cor anglais et piano, parus en 1865 (seuls deux morceaux ont été édités, sur les quatre prévus initialement). La présente restitution propose ces deux pièces dans une version pour saxophone alto, instrument dont le registre est rigoureusement identique à celui du cor anglais, ce dernier étant très rarement usité en musique instrumentale. / Saxophone Et Piano Ou Orgue

The Couleurs Caraïbe series presents original pieces inspired by Caribbean music styles such as the Calypso and Biguine as well as the classical waltz, Mazurka and Fantaisie. This Volume 2 is for alto saxophone