Please use the links below to find the titles recommended in the ABRSM Exam Syllabus:

Grade 8 Aural
ABRSM Specimen Aural Tests Grade 8
Aural Training in Practice with 3 CDs

Scales and Arpeggios
Scales and Arpeggios for E♭ Horn Grades 1-8

Grade 8 Sight Reading
Specimen sight reading tests Grades 6-8

THREE PIECES: one chosen by the candidate from each of the three Lists, A, B and C:

LIST A
1 Bellini Concerto for Horn in E♭ , arr. Newsome (complete) (Studio Music)
2 Haydn Gypsy Rondo It’s a Classic, arr. Green (Brass Wind)
3 Monti Czardas It’s a Classic, arr. Green (Brass Wind)
4 Peter Kneale Variations on a Welsh Theme for E♭ Horn (G & M Brand)
5 Erik Leidzen The Old Rustic Bridge (observing cadenza). No. 1 from Solos for E♭ Instruments (Salvationist Publishing)
6 Mendelssohn Andante: 2nd movt from Violin Concerto, arr. Hopkinson (Kirklees Music)
7 Mozart Allegro or Allegro: 1st or 3rd movt from Horn Quintet in E♭ , K. 407, trans. Bissill for Horn and Piano (Brass Wind)
8 arr. Reader Handel’s Hornpipe for E♭ Horn (observing cadenza) (Studio Music)
9 F. Strauss Introduction, Theme and Variations (omitting bb. 1–33 and 106–152) (Obrasso Verlag: Eb/F edition)
10 R. Strauss Rondo–Allegro molto: 3rd movt from Horn Concerto No. 2 in E♭ (Boosey & Hawkes)

LIST B
1 Eric Ball September Fantasy (Wright & Round)
2 Derek Bourgeois Allegro giocoso (observing upper line in ossia): 3rd movt from Sonata for Tenor Horn, Op. 304 (Brass Wind)
3 Robert Collinson Fantasy for Tenor Horn (horn tacet in bb. 88–94) (Kirklees Music)
4 Alan Fernie Caprice for E♭ Horn (observing cadenza) (Obrasso Verlag)
5 Hindemith Lebhaft: 2nd movt from Sonata for Alto Horn in E♭ (1943) (Schott ED 4635)
6 Newsome The Carousel (Studio Music)
7 Satie Jack in the Box. Classic SH, arr. Green (Brass Wind)
8 Otto M. Schwarz Cape Horn (cutting bb. 80–100) (Mitropa Music: Eb/F edition)
9 Bram Wiggins Rhapsody for Tenor Horn (Kirklees Music)
10 Philip Wilby Concert Gallop (Winwood Music: E♭/B♭ edition)

LIST C
1 Arban Allegro moderato or Allegro: No. 1 or No. 9 from 14 Studies for Cornet (Boosey & Hawkes). Also available in Arban Cornet Method (Boosey & Hawkes)
2 J. S. Bach, arr. Piper Study No. 5 in D or No. 15 in G: from The Well-Tempered Player (Winwood Music)
3 Bergonzi Allegro. No. 50 from 50 Classical Studies for Trumpet (Fentone F 555-401)
4 Kreutzer Allegro. No. 44 from 50 Classical Studies for Trumpet (Fentone F 555-401)
5 Derek Bourgeois Allegro vivace: No. 6 from Fantasy Pieces for Trumpet (Brass Wind)
6 Alwyn Green Study No. 12: P. 36 from Tenor Horn Eurhythmics (Warwick Music)
7 Jock McKenzie Krivo Horo or Rock: from Rhythms of Life (Con Moto: treble brass edition)

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