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 Janet Way, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 5 flautist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.

Each volume contains:


a selection of pieces & short studies, 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 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.

Janet Way (Hon ARAM) is an experienced performer and teacher. She is a tutor for the LRAM woodwind teaching course at the Royal Academy of Music, and has worked as a mentor and diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She is founder and director of the internationally-acclaimed Oxford Flute Summer School.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Largo e Dolce (from ‘Sonata in A major, BWV 1032’)

Stuart Isacoff: Like a man walking on eggshells

Joachim Andersen: Albumblatt op 19

Mike Mower: Sambossa

Michel Blavet: Allegro & Le Marc-Antoine (from ‘Six Sonatas op 2, no 5 – La Chauvet’ )

Michael Head: Presto

Leonard Bernstein: I feel pretty (from ‘West Side Story’)

Ástor Piazzolla: Duo I

Georg Philipp Telemann: Two canons

Traditional Jewish Tune: Hineh Mah Tov

Robert Schumann: Three Romances op 94, no 2 26 44

Aural Awareness

Music Theory

Scale Spot:
C# Minor and E Major
Harmonics, Dominant 7th & Diminished 7th

Sight Reading