This book brings together – for the first time – selected exam pieces, scales and arpeggios,

sight-reading and audio downloads, to support ABRSM’s 2018–2021 Grade 1 Clarinet syllabus.

Key features:

Nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C with piano accompaniment

Classic repertoire and newly commissioned pieces and arrangements

Footnotes with helpful information about the pieces

All the new scales and arpeggios from 2018

Sample sight-reading tests for the new requirements from 2018

Audio performances of the nine pieces by expert musicians plus accompaniment-only tracks for use

when practising (download code included in the book)

SHEET MUSIC

• Daisy Bell [Harry Dacre]
  
• Minuet: No. 2 from Nannerl-Notenbuch [Leopold Mozart]
  
• La Bourée: from Terpsichore [Michael Praetorius]
  
• Hush-a-bye: from Playaround for Clarinet, Book 1 [Roma Cafolla]
  
• Sundown: from In the Groove for Clarinet [James Rae]
  
• Little Brown Jug [Joseph Winner]
  
• Early Doors: from Jazz Club Clarinet, Grades 1-2 [Ned Bennett]
  
• Grey Secrets: No. 2 from Colour Studies [Jeffery Wilson]
  
• Eckington Stomp: No. 12 from uTunes [Martin Yates]
  

RECORDINGS

• Daisy Bell [Harry Dacre]
  
• Minuet: No. 2 from Nannerl-Notenbuch [Leopold Mozart]
  
• La Bourée: from Terpsichore [Michael Praetorius]
  
• Hush-a-bye: from Playaround for Clarinet, Book 1 [Roma Cafolla]
  
• Sundown: from In the Groove for Clarinet [James Rae]
  
• Little Brown Jug [Joseph Winner]
  
• Early Doors: from Jazz Club Clarinet, Grades 1-2 [Ned Bennett]
  
• Grey Secrets: No. 2 from Colour Studies [Jeffery Wilson]
  
• Eckington Stomp: No. 12 from uTunes [Martin Yates]
  
• Daisy Bell [Harry Dacre] - accompaniment only
  
• Minuet: No. 2 from Nannerl-Notenbuch [Leopold Mozart] - accompaniment only
  
• La Bourée: from Terpsichore [Michael Praetorius] - accompaniment only
  
• Hush-a-bye: from Playaround for Clarinet, Book 1 [Roma Cafolla] - accompaniment only
  
• Sundown: from In the Groove for Clarinet [James Rae] - accompaniment only
  
• Little Brown Jug [Joseph Winner] - accompaniment only