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 the aspiring Grade 2 clarinettist 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 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.

Hywel Davies: Song

Friedrich Demnitz: Study No 16

Serge Prokofieff: Troika (from ‘Lieutenant Kijé’)

Christopher Norton: With grace

Peter Warlock: Basse dance

Traditional Scottish: The night visiting song

Carol Barratt: Jalapeño

Traditional American: Shaker melody

Frédéric Berr: Andante

Traditional: By the waters of Babylon

Helen Jane Long: Spooked

Leoš Janácek: Two Moravian folk songs

Jean Xavier Lefèvre: Study No 3

Paul Harris: Dancing bears

Ian Green: Icicles

Janet Way: Creative reflection

Traditional Kenyan: Sisi Watoto Tu Wakenya

Anthony Marks: Over the moon

Traditional English: When the boat comes in (Dance ‘ti thy daddy)

Scale Spot:
G Major
D Minor
A Minor
C Major

Sight-Reading

Aural Awarenes