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Please use the links below to find the titles recommended in the Trinity College Exam Syllabus:
Trinity Scales and Arpeggios – Grades 1 to 8
Trinity Sight reading Grades 1 to 8
Trinity Aural Test books Grades 1 to 5
Oboe Pieces for Grade 4
Three pieces are to be played, two pieces from group A and one piece from group B, to form a balanced programme. Instead of one piece, candidates may offer an own composition.
Group A
Bizet, Chanson Bohème, Great Winners for Oboe, (Brass Wind, oboe part, piano accompt, oboe, piano & CD) 0327
Bullard, Dancing Dolls or Sentimental Serenade or Tightrope Walker, Circus Skills, (Spartan) SP730
Butterworth, Easy Going, Easy Going, (Brass Wind) 1309
Chandler, Valse Sentimentale, no. 2, Three Dance Studies, (Nova) NM298
Darke, A Song Without Words, Six Miniatures, (Schott) ED 11127
German, Pastorale, First Repertoire Pieces, (Boosey & Hawkes) M060124747
Handel, Bourrée, Airobics, (Simrock) EE4008
Handel, Siciliano, Nine Short Pieces from Three Centuries, (OUP)
Hinchliffe, Shire Horses, Forging Ahead on the Oboe, (Hinchliffe)
Jacob, An 80th Birthday Card for Leon Goossens, (Emerson) E124
Kelly, Carol, Trasimeno Suite, (Phylloscopus) PP388
Kelly, Italian Dance, Ballads and Bagatelles, (Spartan) SP1276
Kershaw, Highland Fling, Have Oboe, Will Travel, (Phylloscopus) PP475
Lawson, Honeysuckle Rag, Four Short Pieces for Oboe & Piano, (Emerson) E141
Lewin, Pussyfoot, Up Front Album for Oboe, (Brass Wind) 0305
Lyons, June in Paris or The Garden Tiger, Compositions for Oboe vol. 1, (Useful) U126
Nicholas, Melody, Rhapsody and Melody, (Chester) CH01570
Rae, Mr Big, In the Groove, (Reedimensions) RD 034
Rameau, Rigaudon, Nine Short Pieces from Three Centuries, (OUP)
Swift & Smale, Drum Kitten or Fred Friendly and Oriental Lady, Neighbourhood Cats, (Spartan) SP196
Tchaikovsky, Italian Song, no. 16, Oboe Music for Beginners, (EMB) 6925
Telemann, Siciliana, First Repertoire Pieces, (Boosey & Hawkes) M060124747
Templeton, Siciliana, (Emerson) E329
Wood, Silver Chalice, (Saxtet) 533
Group B
Beekum, Study no. 31 and Study no. 74, Piu Mosso, (Harmonia) HU3106
Borodin, Theme from Polovtsian Dances, Melodies for Pleasure, (Pan) PEM38
Gale, The Latin Eighth, Jazz FX for Oboe, (Brass Wind) 1341CD
Harris, Study no. 22 or Study no. 29, 80 Graded Studies for Oboe book 1, (Faber)
Hinke, Study no. 13, p. 23, Elementary Method for Oboe, (Peters) EP2418
Lyons, Study no. 13 or Study no. 14, 24 Melodic Studies for Oboe, (Useful) U56
Mower, Drifting Off, no. 14, The Good Tempered Oboe, (Itchy Fingers) IFP058
Rae, Hammer, no. 6, Track and Field for Oboe, (Reedimensions) RD 063
Salter, Ties, p. 7 or Alpine Pastures, p. 10, 35 Melodic Studies for Oboe, (Emerson) E413
Sparke, One-part Invention, no. 36, Skilful Studies for Oboe, (Anglo) AMP 095-401
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