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 6 to 8

Oboe Pieces for Grade 7
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
Albinoni, Concerto in D minor, op. 9 no. 2, 1st movt, (IMC) 1025
C P E Bach, Sonata in G minor, 2nd movt, (Ricordi) SY506
Cimarosa, Concerto, 1st movt and 4th movt, (Boosey & Hawkes) M060016080
Debussy, La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin, from 5 Pieces for Oboe, (UMP)
Donizetti, Solo in F minor, (Breitkopf) MR 2277
Dring, Italian Dance, (Weinberger) ARC031
Eichner, Concerto for Oboe & Strings, 1st movt: Allegro tempo giusto, (OUP)
Fiocco, Arioso, (Schott) ED 10536
Handel, Sonata no. 3 in F, op. 1 no. 5, 1st movt: Adagio and 2nd movt: Allegro, from The Three Authentic Sonatas (Nova) NM100
Harty, Chansonette, from Three Miniatures, (Stainer & Bell) H330
Head, Presto or Elegiac Dance, (Boosey & Hawkes) M060032295
Nielsen, Humoresque, from Two Fantasy Pieces op. 2, (Hansen) WH30736
Richardson, Roundelay, (Emerson) E44
Ridout, Romance, (Emerson) E198
Saint-Saëns, Sonata, op. 166, 1st movt, (Peters) EP9196
Sammartini, Sonata in G, 3rd and 4th movts, (Chester) CH01575
Schumann, No. 1 or no. 3, from Three Romances op. 94, (Peters) EP2387 or (Henle) HN 427
Telemann, Sonata in A minor, 1st and 2nd movts or 3rd and 4th movts, from Sonatas and Pieces from Der getreue Musikmeister, (Bärenreiter) HM7
Telemann, Sonata in G minor, 3rd movt: Andante and 4th movt: Allegro, (Schott) ED 10195
Verroust, Capriccio, (Emerson) E458
Vinter, Friday Street, (Studio)
Wilson, Silver Sonatina for Oboe & Piano, 1st movt: Improvisation and 3rd movt: Rondo or 2nd movt: Romanza and 3rd movt: Rondo, (Saxtet) 550

Cor Anglais,
Barret, Cantilena, (Phylloscopus) PP561
Harris, Sonatina, 2nd movt, (Queen’s Temple) QT8

Group B
J S Bach, No. 49, p. 28 or no. 70, p. 42, from J S Bach Difficult Passages, ed. Rothwell, (Boosey & Hawkes) M060010651
Beekum, Miniature, p. 8 or Mini Concert, p. 20, from Ornamental Oboes, (Harmonia) HU 3795
Berkeley, No. 2, from Three Moods, (OUP)
Bourgeois, No. 4, from Fantasy Pieces for Oboe, (Brass Wind) 3302
Britten, Pan or Bacchus, from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, (Boosey & Hawkes) M060015274
Ferling, Study no. 62, from 80 Graded Studies for Oboe book 2, (Faber)
Harris, Sonata da Camera, 1st movt: Allegro assai, (Queen’s Temple) QT6
Hinke, Study no. 14, p. 24 and Study no. 18, p. 33, from Elementary Method for Oboe, (Peters) EP2418
Jacob, Galop, from Seven Bagatelles, (OUP)
Mower, Jauntless Jig, no. 28 or May the Fourth Be With You, no. 35, from The Good Tempered Oboe, (Itchy Fingers) IFP058
Reade, Birdsong, from Aspects of a Landscape, (Nova) NM 237
Woolfenden, Harlequin & Columbine, from Reflections for Oboe, (Brass Wind) 2302

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