
• a graded collection of pieces, responding to the need for saxophone repertoire at the early grades
• repertoire explores music written from the 15th century to the present day, allowing the pupil to get a real feel for the different styles of music through time
• carefully written to practise note ranges and keys of the early grades
• well crafted and idiomatic arrangements
• simple piano accompaniments
• each volume presents the pieces in chronological order and prints the year in which they were written
Contents
- A Christmas Tune [Gordon Jacob]
- A Romp [Anon. / Ian Buckle]
- The Rune of the Weaver [Anon.]
- A Plain Song [Anon.]
- Fine Knacks for Ladies from Second Book of Songs or Ayres [John Dowland]
- In Sherwood livde stout Robin Hood from Fourth Booke of Ayres [Robert Jones]
- Bourrée 2 from English Suite No. 2, BWV 807 [Johann Sebastian Bach]
- Marche funébre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto, K. 453a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
- Minuet from 12 German Dances, Hob. IX/10 [Joseph Haydn]
- Romance from L’elisir d’amore [Gaetano Donizetti]
- Serenade from Harold in Italy, Op. 16 [Hector Berlioz]
- Grandfather’s Dance from The Nutcracker, Op.71 [Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky]
- Prelude (from Jack in the Box) [Eric Satie]
- Linden Lea [Ralph Vaughan Williams]
- The Joker from In aller Fruhe, Op. 126b [Alexander Grechaninov]
- My Horse has Cast a Shoe from Pacific 1860 [Noël Coward]
- On the Hills from In Ireland [Marjorie Corker]
- Promenade from Simple Suite No. 3 [John Reeman]
- Bois épais, from Amadis, Op. 63 [Jean-Baptiste Lully]
- The Merry Peasant (Frohlicher Landmann), Op. 68 No. 10 [Robert Schumann]