Shining Brass, Book 1

Shining Brass, Book 1Brand new repertoire to support brass instruments in ABRSM graded music exams. Shining Brass is a collection of newly commissioned repertoire pieces and studies that can be played by any brass instrument. Key features: Pieces set on Lists A, B and C of Grades 1 3 of the Trumpet and Trombone syllabuses and the Horn, E flat Horn, Baritone Euphonium and Tuba syllabuses. A single part book that can be used by all treble and bass clef brass including E

Time Pieces for Trombone is a two-volume anthology providing a graded selection of well-crafted and idiomatic arrangements

Contains specimen tests for the new sight-singing requirements from 2009

All of them have been carefully written by Paul Harris and Amos Miller to practise the note ranges and keys of the early grades while providing straightforward piano accompaniments for the teacher to play

from Purcell to Puccini and from Schubert to Stravinsky

and backing tracks in all keys

and the examiner rubrics (the exact words that will be used by the examiner to deliver the tests)

Focuses very precisely on the skills and knowledge needed at Grade 8

Many of the pieces feature on the ABRSM Bassoon syllabus while also being an invaluable source of further study and recital repertoire for Grades 1-3

All of them have been carefully written to provide practice of the keys

Nikki Iles & Friends

Recordings of all practice exercises

like the Bach–Gounod Ave Maria or Brahms’s Hungarian Dance in G minor