Suggested Saxophone Repertoire

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The following guide offers only a sampling of the entire saxophone repertoire and does not restrict students from working on additional material. Specific programs of study will be chosen to develop each student’s individual strengths and weaknesses while best preparing them for life as a performer, educator or well-rounded individual. Students will typically enter and exit the program at various levels.

Level I

Etudes and Methods Rhythmical Articulation Bona Odd Meter Etudes Gates Daily Exercises for Saxophone Klose Dailey Studies Kynaston 24 Easy Atonal Studies Lacour 50 Easy & Progressive Studies Lacour Beginning Studies in the Altissimo Lang Register Playing the Saxophone, 3 volumes Londeix 18 Exercices d’apres Berbiguier Mule 24 Etudes Faciles d’apres Samie Mule Exercises Mecaniques Mule Exercises Transcendants Perrin Top Tones for Saxophone Rascher 27 Melodious & Rhythmical Etudes Small The Art of Saxophone Playing Teal Selected Studies Voxman

Repertoire Sonata No. 6 Bach/Mule Aeolian Song Benson Suite Bonneau Aria Bozza Tango et Tarentelle Dautremer Syrinx (unacc.) Debussy Choral Varie d'Indy Dix Figures a Danser Dubois Characteristic Pieces Dubois Sonata Eccles Sonata Fasch/Rascher Cinq Danses Exotiques Francaix Diversion Heiden Sonata No. 6 Handel/Mule Histoires Ibert Variations on a Dorian Theme Jacob Quinze Etudes Koechlin Sicilienne Lantier Three Short Pieces Myers Canzonetta Pierne Piece en forme de Habanera Ravel Ballade Reed Chanson et Passpied Rueff Particles Bourne Russell Three Romances Schumann/Hemke Sonata Snyder Romance Still Sonatine Sportive Tcherepnine Chant Corse Tomasi Introduction et Danse Tomasi Light of Sothis Quate An Abstract Ward Introduction and Samba Whitney Sonata Wilder Six Studies in English Folk Song Williams, R.V.

Level II

Etudes and Methods 20 Grand Etudes Camelle 48 Famous Etudes with additional studies Ferling/ Mule 27 Virtuoso Studies Iasilli Daily Studies Kynaston Les Gammes Londeix Etudes after Sivori, Rode, Fiorillo, Mule Capelle Book I 30 Grands Exercices d’apres Soussman Mule 53 Etudes d’apres Boehm Mule Daily Exercises after Tershak Mule Studies in the High Harmonics Nash Saxophone High Tones Rousseau Transcendental Etudes Samyn 10 Contemporary Etudes Schmidt

Repertoire Sonata No. 4 Bach/Mule Concerto Badings Concertino Benson Concertino Bilik Concertino Bozza Improvisation et Caprice (unacc.) Bozza Sonata Creston

Rapsodie Debussy Seventh Healing Song Demars Concerto Glazunov Concerto Hartley Petite Suite (unacc.) Hartley Solo Heiden Sonata Heiden Fantaisie-Impromptu Jolivet Complainte et Danse Markovitch Meditation Massenet Tableaux de Provence Maurice Improvisations 1, 2, and 3 Noda Sonatine Pascal Parable (unacc.) Persichetti Piece Concertante Reutter Ballade Tomasi Sarabande and Gigue Tull Introduction and Samba Whitney

Level III

Etudes and Methods Paradigms I Caravan Contemporary Saxophone Studies DeLibero 25 Capricen und Sonate (Bks. I & II) Karg-Elert 8 Brilliant Etudes Lacour 6 Etudes Massis Etudes Varies Mule 53 Etudes, Book 2 Mule

Repertoire Partita in A minor (flute unacc.) Bach Cello Suites I-VI Bach/Londeix Sonata Beall Caprice en forme de Valse Bonneau Sonate Bourrel Divertimento Boutry Air and Scherzo Cowell Concerto Creston Duo Hartley Fantasia Concertante Heiden Sonata Hindemith Elegie et Rondeau Husa Concertino da Camera Ibert Sonata Karg-Elert Seasons Karlins Holly Roller Larsen Scaramouche Milhaud Sonata Muczynski Improvisation I, II & III (unacc.) Noda Sonata (unacc.) Rueff Schizo Squito Smith, R Sarabande and Gigue Tull

Level IV

Etudes and Methods Etudes Expressives Ameller 12 Etudes and Caprices Bozza 28 Etudes after Messiaen Lacour Nouvelles Etudes Variees Londeix 53 Etudes Book III Mule 16 Finishing Studies Ruggiero 9 Transendental Etudes Samyn

Repertoire Canto IV Adler Ode to Lord Buckley Amram Music for Saxophone Basset Salsa with That Bramwell Pastoral Carter Gavambodi 2 Charpentier Musique de Concert M. Constant Concerto Dahl Deux Pieces Denisov Sonata Denisov Prelude, Cadence et Finale Desenclos Shu Gath Manna Galante Concerto Gotkovski San Antonio Harbison Leger Musique Lee, H Concerto Larsson Distances Within Me Lennon Concerto Muczynski Ballade (alto) Martin Mai (unacc.) Noda Phoenix (unacc.) Noda Cadenza Robert The Nature of this Whirling Wheel Rogers Picnic on the Marne Rorem Legende Schmitt Renewing the Myth Shrude Hot Seat Smith, R Wings Tower

Level V

Etudes and Methods Mirrors IV Diemente 28 Etudes sur les Modes Lacona k’Olivier Messiaen Douze Esquisses Lacour Neuf Etudes Books I-IV Lauba Tango-Etudes Piazzolla/Delangle 22 Etudes Samyn 10 Contemporary Etudes Schmidt Exercises Journaliers Tershak/Mule

Repertoire Sonata Albright Accompanied Recitative Babbitt Whirled Series Babbitt Images (sopnino, sop, alto w/tape) Babbitt Duo Concertante Bassett Sequenza IXb (unacc.) Berio Panic Birtwistle Concert Suite (a.sax & band) Bolcom Lilith Bolcom Concerto Brandt Concerto Colgrass Concertante M. Constant Sonata for sax and cello Denisov Concerto (asax w/orch.) Denisov Sonata for Alto Saxophone Feld Concerto Finney Brilliance Gotkovski Another Man’s Poison Hodkinson Concerto Husa Airline (a.sax & tape) Krause Steady Study on the Boogie (unacc.) Lauba Sud Lauba Symphonic Rhapsody Lennon Concerto Martino Concerto Maslanka Sonata Maslanka Concerto Mead Scena (unacc.) Mead Hiatus Pitch Moore GEN Noda Arabesque III Nodäira Le frene egare Rosse Concerto Ruggiero Winds of Summer Stock In Freundschaft (unacc.) Stockhausen Concerto Salonen Concerto Schuller Juggernaut Smith, R In Two Worlds (sax w/ computer) Subotnick Klonos Swerts Luminescence Wilson Urban Thoughts Worley Divertimento Wuorinen

Soprano Saxophone Repertoire (All Levels) Phases Contra Phases Arma Trois Contrastes Arma Passages Beerman Sequenza VIIb (unacc.) Berio Six Metamorphosis after Ovid Britten Sonata for Soprano Saxophone Caravan Inner Song (oboe unacc.) Carter Le Chant des Ténèbres Escaich Elegie for Soprano Saxophone Feld Diversions Hartley Concertino Harvey Sonatina Lee, H Sonata Op. 4, No. 11 Loeillet/Pittel Concerto in c minor Marcello/Pittel Sonata Maslanka Concerto Myers Sonata (oboe w/ piano) Poulenc Vocalise Rachmaninoff/Pittel Concerto Read-Thomas Lessons of the Sky Rogers Variations Rossini/Schmidt Interplay Ruggiero Tre Pezzi (unacc.) Scelsi Shadows and Dawning Shrude In Freundschaft (unacc.) Stockhausen Distance Takemitsu Concerto Torke Fantasia Villa-Lobos Intermezzo for Soprano Saxophone Yoshioka Sonata Young

Tenor Saxophone Repertoire (All Levels) Sonata Anderson Trigon, Op.31 Cunningham Sonata DiPasquale Pitt County Excursions Duckworth Ballad in Time and Space Duckworth Poem Hartley Concertino Hartley Sonata Hartley Concertino Hasquenoph Opcit (unacc.) Hurel Episode Quatriemme (unacc.) Jolas Music for Tenor Saxophone Karlins Piece Concertante Lacour Hard (unacc.) Lauba Ballade (tenor) Martin Periple (unacc.) Mefano The Upward Stream Peck Tre Pezzi (unacc.) Scelsi Sonatina Schimdt Concerto Schmidt Sonata Stein Fantasia Villa-Lobos Concertino Lachrymose Waddle September Sonata Worley

Books The Saxophonist's Bedside Book Harvey New Directions in Saxophone Technique Hemke Les Sons Multiples aux Saxophones Kientzy Sax and His Saxophone Kochnitzky 150 Ans de Musique pour Saxophone Londeix Hello, Mr. Sax! Londeix The Orchestral Saxophonist Vol. 1 & 2 Ronkin & Frascotti Marcel Mule: His Life and the Saxophone Rousseau Jean-Marie Londeix Umble

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