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, Vera Gray and others.Carefully selected by Janet Way, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for developing musicians 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 Packaged with a CD of full performance demonstrations, piano backing tracks, and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.Janet Way 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.

Gathering peascods (traditional English tune) - Purcell: Trumpet air (from ‘The Indian Queen’) - Mower: Peru - Beethoven: Scherzo - Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March - Lawrence: Study - Firth: Tut-Tut-Too in Tim-Buk-Too - Bernstein: America (from ‘West Side Story’) - Moussorgsky: Promenade (from ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’) - Handel: Bourree - Mozart: Andante grazioso - Song of the western men (traditional English tune) - Stella splendens (traditional Spanish tune) - Norton: Big time - Aural Awareness - Improvise! - Scale Spot: - Whole tone - C minor - Eb major - Chromatic - Sight-Reading