Pop Performance Pieces includes 10 carefully selected contemporary and classic pop songs in special arrangements for Alto Saxophone with aPiano accompaniment suitable for Grade 2-5 students as well as teachers. With a Piano score separate Alto Saxophone part and performance hints and tips these fun pieces will honeyour skills and develop ensemble playing.These pieces present a fun alternative to graded exam material and many are suitable for GCSE performance exams. The tunes will be familiar to most players withclassics like Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and Elton John's Your Song as well as contemporary pop songs like Adele's When We Were Young and KatyPerry's Firework. These 10 songs can be played in instrumental lessons in the classroom and of course on stage. The separate booklet with the Alto Saxophonepart features tips by professional musicians with some fingering guidance while the Piano score also includes the tips along with chord symbols and helpful fingering suggestions. 

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.

Contemporary French saxophonist Philippe Portejoie studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won many prizes. Composed in 2007  Petite Complainte for Alto Saxophone and Piano contributes to a significant collection of compositions by Portejoie. A typical performance of Petite Complainte lasts around three minutes and explores features including a wide range complex rhythms chromaticism ornamentation and variations in performance directions amongst other aspects. For all aspiring advanced saxophonists Portejoie's Petite Complainte is essentialto an exciting varied repertoire.

Contemporary composer Amy Quate works in a wide variety of musical styles forms and media. Composed in 1982 and dedicated to saxophonist Debra Richtmeyer Light of Sothis creatively depicts the brightest star in heaven. Sothis now called Sirius is the star aspect of the goddess Isis whose light confines the cycles of nature which bring beauty prosperity and life. It is believed that Sothis blesses us with sacred illumination and it is this which Quate depicts in Light of Sothis. In three movements Grace Passion and Faith the Saxophone line has lyrical melodies contrasted with dramatic scalic passages covering the entire range of the instrument. Suitable for intermediate level saxophonists a performance Quate's Light of Sothis proves to be an enticing prospect.

Par LIEBERMANN A.. / Contemporary / Date parution : 2020-10-15/ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto Solo et Piano

Par DANGEL A.. / Contemporary / Date parution : 2020-10-15/ Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

An easy step-by-step method of learning to improvise. Simple transposition exercises and short, structured solos lead to controlled, confident improvisations. Improvise Microjazz can be dipped into or worked through in sequence. Chord symbols are used throughout, and each unit ends with a new Microjazz piece, providing the player with an opportunity to relax by playing some written out music with no decisions to make. Microjazz is the world famous series of pieces based on classical technique yet using popular contemporary styles such as jazz, blues, rock'n'roll and funk. Microjazz helps you develop musicianship and technique through the familiar sounds and styles of popular music. It is this unique combination of modern genres with traditional technique that has made Microjazz an international success with teachers and players, and one of the most widely used educational series ever published. New technology brings Microjazz alive and adds an exciting interactive dimension to practice and performance. Based on classical technique Microjazz is a great way to introduce rhythm and develop co-ordination skills whilst being fun for all ages and standards. A great motivator for the reluctant student and the pieces are equally effective on acoustic or electronic instruments. Content : Thoughtful Melody for Two Duet Train Blues Set Piece Picnic Piece Moving Along Young at Heart Misty Day Into the Night