The University of Alabama

School of Music

A Selective Course of Study for Saxophone Students

 

Repertoire and études are to be chosen from the following lists. Appropriate substitutions and additions are acceptable if approved by the instructor.

 

 

LEVEL I

 

 

Études

 

Composer/Arranger

Title

Publisher

Berbiguier/Mule

18 Studies

Schirmer

Coker

Improvising Jazz

Studio PR

Coker

Patterns for Jazz

Studio PR

Ferling/Mule

48 Studies after Ferling

Leduc

Huffnagle

Streamlined Etudes - Books I & II

Gate Music

Klosé

Daily Exercises for Saxophone

Fischer

Lang

Beginning Studies in the Altissimo Register

Lang Music

Londeix

Les Gammes

Trier

Niehaus

Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Jazz Conception for Saxophone

Try Publications

Paisner

30 Studies in Swing

Gate Music

Paisner

19 Streamlined Etudes

Gate Music

Rascher

Top Tones for Saxophone

Carl Fischer

Rousseau

Saxophone High Tones

Étoile

Sinta

Voicing: An Approach to the Saxophone’s Third Register

Ann Arbor

Small

27 Melodious and Rhythmical Exercises

Carl Fischer

Teal

Art of Saxophone Playing

Schirmer

Teal

Saxophonist's Workbook

University Press

Teal

25 Daily Exercises

University Press

Teal

Studies in Time Division

University Press

Voxman

Selected Studies

Rubank

 

 

 

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Level I Repertoire

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Ameller

Suite

Editions Musicales Transatlantiques

Bach/Mule

Sonata No. 4

Leduc

Bach/Mule

Sonata No. 6

Leduc

Bozza

Aria

Leduc

Dubois

Dix Figures à Danser

Leduc

Fasch

Sonata

McGinnis & Marx

Handel/Mule

Sonata No. I

Leduc

Handel/Rascher

Sonata No. XIII

 

Ibert/Mule

Histoires

Leduc

Koechlin

Quinze Etudes

Editions de Musiques

Lantier

Sicilienne

Leduc

Myers

Three Short Pieces

Artisan

Rueff

Chanson et Passepied

Leduc

Russell

Particles

Bourne

Schumann/Hemke

Three Romances

Southern

Snyder

Sonata

Tenuto

Tcherepnine

Sonatine Sportive

Leduc

Tourneur

Concerto (d'apres Mozart)

Leduc

Wilder

Sonata

Wilder Music

 

 

 

 

Level II

 

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Études

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Bowers

Bop Duets

Charles Colin

Gates

Odd Meter Études

Sam Fox

Mule

52 Études, Book 1

Leduc

Parker

Bebop for Alto Sax

Criterion Music

Parker

Charlie "Bird" Parker

Criterion Music

Soussman/Mule

30 Études after Soussman

Leduc

Teal

Daily Exercises for the Improvement of the Saxophone Technique

University Press

Tershak/Mule

Daily Exercises after Tershak

Leduc

 

Level II Repertoire

 

Badings

Concerto

Donemus

Bilik

Concertino

Leduc

Bozza

Improvisation et Caprice

Leduc

Bozza

Impromptu et Danse

Leduc

Debussy

Rhapsody

Durand

Glazounov

Concerto

Leduc

Hartley

Petite Suite

Interlochen

Hartley

Concerto

Tenuto

Heiden

Sonata

Schott

Saint

Saëns/Teal Sonata, Op. 167

Étoile

Schumann/Teal

Fantasy Piece (from Solos for the Alto Saxophone Player)

Schirmer

Snyder

Seven Epigrams

Southern

Van Delden

Sonatine

Donemus (C.F. Peters)

 

LEVEL III

 

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Études

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Caravan

Paradigms

 

Karg-Elert

25 Capricen Und Sonate,

Zimmerman

 

Book 1

(Peters)

Lacour

12 Études

 

Miedema

Jazz Styles and Analysis

Downbeat Music

Mule

53 Études, Book 2

Leduc

Parker

Charlie Parker Omnibook

Times Square

Parker

The Charlie Parker Collection Volumes 1-4

Andrew’s Music

Schmitt

10 Contemporary Etudes

Western Int'l Music

 

Level III Repertoire

 

Bach/Londeix

Suite No. III (Cello)

Lemoine

Benson

Concertino

MCA

Britten

Six Metamorphosis (Oboe)

Boosey & Hawkes

Caravan

Sketches

Seesaw

Cowell

Air & Scherzo

Associated

Creston

Sonata

Shawnee

Debussy

Syrinx

 

Diemente

Response

Seesaw

Dubois

Divertissement

Leduc

Gotkovsky

Brillance

Editions Françaises de Musique

Hartley

Duo

Tenuto

Maurice

Tableaux de Provence

Lemoine

Noda

Improvisation I, II, & III

Leduc

Robert

Cadenza

Editions Françaises de Musique

Rorem

Picnic On The Marne

Boosey & Hawkes

Schmitt

Legende

Durand

Tomasi

Ballade

Leduc

 

LEVEL IV

 

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Bozza

12 Etudes and Caprices

Leduc

Coltrane

The Works of John Coltrane

 

 

Volumes 1-10

Andrew's Music

Henderson

Joe Henderson Transcribed

 

Sax Solos

Times Square

Schmitt

10 Contemporary Etudes

Western Int'l Music

Karg-Elert

25 Capricen Und Sonate,

Zimmerman

 

Book 2

(Peters)

Londeix

Études Variées

Leduc

Loyon

32 Études

Billaudot

Nelson

Patterns for Improvisation

Times Square

Mule

53 Etudes, Book 3

Leduc

Samyn

9 Études Transcendantes

Billaudot

Viola

The Technique of the Saxophone

 

 

Volumes II & III

Berklee Press

 

Level IV Repertoire

 

Bach/Harle

Sonata G minor, BWV 1020

Universal

Bach/Londeix

Suite I (Violoncello)

Lemoine

Bassett

Music for Alto Saxophone & Piano

Peters

Bonneau

Caprice en Forme de Valse

Leduc

Charpentier

Gavombodi II

Leduc

Creston

Concerto

Schirmer

Desenclos

Prélude, Cadence, et Finale

Leduc

Husa

Elegie et Rondo

Leduc

Ibert

Concertino da Camera

Leduc

Martin

Ballade

Leduc

Milhaud

Scaramouche

Salabert

Pascal

Sonatine

Durand

Ruggiero

Interplay

Dorn

Snyder

Variations

Artisan

Snyder

Seven Pieces for Saxophone

Southern

 

Level V

 

 

 

 

 

Level V Repertoire

 

Adler

Canto IV

Composers Facsimile

Bassett

Duo Concertante

Peters

Bolcom

Lilith

Dorn

Brandt

Concerto

MCA

Cooper

Four Impromtus

Dorn

Dahl

Concerto

Associated

Denisov

Sonata

Leduc

Finney

Sonata in A minor

Peters

Husa

Concerto

Marbot

Koch, Von

Concerto

Henri Elkan

Larsen

Concerto

Leduc

Lennon

Distances Within Me

Dorn

Lennon

Symphonic Rhapsody

Peters

Rueff

Concerto

Leduc

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Created by Jonathan Noffsinger August 4, 2001.

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