Par QUERE G. / SOLDANO JEAN-CLAUDE. / Niveau : fin de 1er / début de 2nd cycle / Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

La collection Écouter, lire et jouer est aujourd?hui une référence pour l?enseignement des cuivres et des bois. Tous accompagnés d?un CD, ces ouvrages passionnants destinés aux débutants contiennent des chansons, des casse-tête musicaux et des jeux pour mieux comprendre la musique, des informations sur l?instrument concerné, et de nombreuses pièces agréables à jouer. Les trois volumes de la méthode qui forment la base de cette collection sont complétés par plusieurs volumes de matériel complémentaire correspondant aux diverses étapes de cette méthode. Dans Les Grands Classiques, les mélodies sont présentées en ordre croissant de difficulté et peuvent être travaillées conjointement avec les trois volumes de la méthode Écouter, lire et jouer. Emmenés dans un voyage à travers l?histoire de la musique, les élèves rencontrent les plus importants compositeurs de la musique classique, depuis Tielman Susato jusqu?à Antonín Dvo?ák, et bénéficient de commentaires historiques pertinents. La présente édition comprend des partitions pour accompagnement au piano soigneusement arrangées dans un niveau de difficulté modéré, dont les enregistrements sont disponibles sous forme de fichiers en ligne à écouter en streaming ou à télécharger. Hymne à la joie O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden Marche du prince de Danemark La Mourisque A lieta vita La Truite Largo Valse ? La Belle au bois dormant Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs Prélude Symphonie « La Surprise » Le Printemps Valse, op. 39 Alla Hornpipe Sinfonie Nr. 40 Menuet

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. 

Short Repertoire or Concert Pieces for Alto Saxophone and Piano-Tasty Tunes is a collection of short repertoire or concert pieces forthe developing instrumentalist. The descriptive titles such as JellyCopters Dough Raises Me A Cream Tease and Cornish Pastichehelp conjure the mood of the music and act as a stimulus for theperformer. With a mixture of styles and tempi these piecesrepresent a worthwhile challenge for players of grades three tofive standard. Pieces may be performed individually or combinedin any number to create a suite - or perhaps a sweet? Although themusic is approachable and light in character it provides importantand technical musical experience. Enjoy playing and wet youraudience’s appetite! A separate pianoaccompaniment part isincluded with this book.

To the Hungarian Woman for Alto Saxophone and Piano-French composer Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995) significantly contributed to the woodwind repertoire particularly for Saxophone. Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite for Alto Saxophone and Piano was published in 1962 and remains popular in the advanced saxophonist's repertoire. Dubois' music is characteristically light-hearted with unusual harmonic and melodic textures. The fourth movement of Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite for Alto Saxophone and Piano To the Hungarian Woman reflects Dubois' compositional characteristics as well as elements of Hungariancharacteristics and a typical performance lasts about two and a half minutes. Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite is essential to the advanced saxophonist's repertoire. Dubois' most famous work makes for an exciting and enjoyable performance for players and audiences alike.

To The French Woman For Alto Saxophone And Piano-French composer Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995) significantly contributed to the woodwind repertoire particularly for Saxophone. Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite for Alto Saxophone and Piano was published in 1962 and remains popular in the advanced saxophonist's repertoire. Dubois' music is characteristically light-hearted with unusual harmonic and melodic textures. The second movement of Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite for Alto Saxophone and Piano To the French Woman reflects Dubois' compositional characteristics as well as elements of Frenchcharacteristics with a typical performance lasting about four minutes and 45 seconds. Pieces Caracteristiques En Forme De Suite is essential to the advanced saxophonist's repertoire. Dubois' most famous work makes for an exciting and enjoyable performance for players and audiences alike.

French saxophonist Marcel Mule (1901-2001) compiles an essential addition to the Saxophone repertoire. Including pieces by Martini Handel Corelli Rameau Lully Couperin Leclair and Bach Mule ensures that the Baroque genre is accessible to the Saxophone. In the first volume of his compilation Famous Pieces for Alto Saxophone and Piano Mule arranges famous works by the great composers of the Baroque era for the Saxophone ensuring that necessary additions and edits are made. Pieces include Lully's Menuet from Les Bourgeois Gentilhomme and a J. S. BachSuite. The changes by Mule include phrasing breath marks tempo marks dynamics and other performance directions. Famous Pieces for Alto Saxophone and Piano compiled by Marcel Mule provides excellent expansion to the repertoire of the Saxophone.

38 Recital Pieces-Repertoire Classics for Alto Saxophone is a comprehensive and progressively graded collection of 38 classic solos for Alto Saxophone with Piano accompaniment.The book contains a fine mix of transcriptions of familiar classics along with solos written specifically for the Alto Saxophone The collection is graded in difficulty from moderate to advanced and is ideal material for concerts and recitals. There is a wide variety of music from all style periods and by some of the greatest composers of all time.As an added bonus included is a data CD that contains MP3 audio files of the Piano accompaniments to make practicing more fun. Thedata CD also includes all of the Piano accompaniment parts for all the pieces in the collection as printable PDF files. This way you can print out only the piece you are currently playing reducing the bulk of printed material you have to carry around. This feature also allows this large and useful collection to be presented at a very attractive price.

For Alto Saxophone and Piano. Par SAY FAZIL. Suite, consisting of six short pieces for alto saxophone and piano, is a virtuoso work for this duo. I composed my Suite in 2014 in commission of the legendary saxophone virtuoso Mr. Sugawa with whom I played the world premiere in Tokyo in 2014. The pieces are very much inspired by Turkish music, rhythms, dances, folklore... and composed in modal and sometimes atonal character. Fazil Say / Niveau : 5 / Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

Saxophone Alto Et Piano-My First Eight Solos by Armando Ghidoni is a set of eight Alto Saxophone solos for beginners with Piano accompaniment. These pieces all quite melodic and entertaining enable young players to work on solo pieces aside from the regular studies and exercises. The solos also appear in order of increasing difficulty:  1. Très simple (Very easy) 2. Noir et blanc (Black and White) 3. En Harmonie (In harmony) 4. Promenade en roller (On rollers) 5. Broadway et moi (Broadway and me) 6. En bateau le Mississipi (The Mississipi on a boat) 7. Sous les étoiles deSanta Fé (Under the stars in Santa Fé) 8. Grand Canyon Express (Grand Canyon Express)  This set of solos can also be played by a Tenor or a Soprano Saxophone. Armando Ghidoni is a French composer with Italian origins who plays Saxophone and Flute. He is edited since 1989 by Alphonse Leduc.

Concertino Da Camera written in 1935 by Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) was a small concerto for alto-saxophone and eleven instruments: Flute Bassoon Oboe Horn Trumpet and Strings. This score is for Alto Saxophone and Piano. This Concertino is in two movements Allegro con moto and Larghetto – Animato Molto is dedicated to the saxophonist Sigurd Rascher and is standing out for its large use of the Alto-Saxophone. It can be technically challenging and has a strong lyrical part. Its author Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) is a neoclassical composer who won the Prix de Rome in 1919. He composed manysymphonic suites operas and seven orchestras including Angelique (1926) and Divertissement (1930). He was also in charge of the Accadémie de France in the Villa Médicis (Roma) and was later administrator for the Paris Opera. This concerto has some similarities with his Flute Concerto (1934) also published by Alphonse Leduc.

Grade 5-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 5 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 5 Alto Saxophone players includes the pieces Tonight from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story Duo I by Ástor Piazzolla A Tempo Guisto by Georg Philipp Telemann and more.Janet Way: Grade By Grade - Alto Saxophone (Grade 5) comes complete with a CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.