Grade by Grade – Cello Grade 3

Description

Grade by Grade – Cello Grade 3 – part of the 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, Edward Huws Jones and others.

Carefully selected by Miriam Lowbury, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 3 cellist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.

Each volume contains:

• a diverse collection of pieces, 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, music-theory and improvisation activities
• newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks
• a piano accompaniment booklet

Full performance demonstrations, piano accompaniment tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources available online.

Grade by Grade – Cello Grade 3 contents:

• Antonio Vivaldi: Autumn (from The Four Seasons)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Music (from The Sound of Music)
• Traditional Welsh melody: The Ash Grove
• John Menz: Dixieland Blues
• Peter Tchaikovsky: March (from The Nutcracker Suite)
• Traditional Hungarian melody: The Four Corners of my Handkerchief
• Colin Kirkpatrick: In the Slot
• Traditional English melody: Watkins’ Ale
• Traditional Peruvian melody: Stars, no Moon
• Béla Bartók: My Lover’s Mother
• Jacques Aubert: Tambourin I & II
• Leonard Bernstein: Somewhere (from West Side Story)
• Hugh & Katherine college: Cossacks
• Gilbert & Kid Ory: Muskrat Ramble
• Christopher Norton: Inter-City Stomp
• Béla Bartók: Two Pigeons