Music Craft Grade 1 Listening List
Suggested listening to help with Music Craft
These lists are designed to accompany AMEB's Music Craft syllabus. At each grade students are required to become familiar with the sounds of various musical instruments, and are given set works to study. The music selected below gives a sample of each instrument for the grade, both in solo and orchestral contexts, and also includes a full version of each of the set works. The music includes some well-known and some less famous pieces, and covers a wealth of music in a variety of styles. The selections for each grade fit onto a single CD, or the songs can be downloaded onto an MP3 player.
Set Works
Anon: Botany Bay
Set work for Grade 1
Recommended recording: from the album "Songs for Aussie Kids" by The Goanna Gang (track 8)
Mozart: “A Birdcatcher Am I” (The Birdcatcher's Song) from The Magic Flute
Set work for Grade 1
Recommended recording: from the album, “The Classical Child at the Opera,” in English translation from the original German (track 5)
Traditional: Jamaican Rumba
Set work for Grade 1
Recommended recording: from the album "Larry Adler: Harmonica Virtuoso" (track 7)
Anon: Sleep Baby Sleep
Set work for Grade 1
Recommended recording: Elizabeth Guest, from the album “Sleep, Baby, Sleep”
Suggested Listening
Bach: Sonata for Flute Solo in A minor, BWV 1013: IV. Bourree anglais
Flute solo
Tchaikovksy: Nutcracker Ballet Suite: Dance of the Flutes
Flute with orchestra
Telemann: 12 Fantasies: Fantasy No. 1
Oboe solo
From the album “François Leleux: Solo Oboe”
Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Oboe and Strings: II: Minuet and Musette
Oboe with orchestra
Lennox Berkeley: Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo
Clarinet solo
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622, II: Adagio (2nd movement)
Clarinet with orchestra
Telemann: Fantasia 4 andante (for solo bassoon)
Bassoon solo
Vivaldi: Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 498: III. Allegro
Bassoon with orchestra