Music Craft Grade 3 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
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Major, op. 14 no. 1: II: Allegretto
Set work for Grade 3
Recommended recording: Idil Biret, from the album: “Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 5”
Traditional: Down By the Salley Gardens
Set work for Grade 3
Recommended recording: from the album “Celtic Flair” by Kindred
Anonymous: Pange Lingua
Set work for Grade 3
Recommended recording: from the album, “Franciscan Road,” The Friars of St. Saviour's Monastery
Petzold: Minuet in G Major, Anna Magdalena Notebook, BWV Anh. 114
Set work for Grade 3
Recommended recording: Janos Sebestyen, from the album “J. S. Bach: Inventions and Sinfonias”
Traditional: The Crabfish
Set work for Grade 3
Recommended recording: from the album “As I Cycled out on a May Morning,” The Cecil Sharp Centenary Collective
Suggested Listening
Ewazen: Aftershock, for Solo Trumpet
Trumpet solo
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat, H. VIIe, No. 1: II. Allegro
Trumpet with orchestra
Richard Bissill: Lone Horn Call and Charge for Solo Horn
Horn solo
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, K. 447: III. Allegro
Horn with orchestra
James Markey: Fantasy for Solo Trombone, op. 69
Trombone solo
Michael Haydn: Trombone Concerto in D Major: III. Presto
Trombone with orchestra
Penn: Three Essays for Solo Tuba: III. Postlude
Solo Tuba
Vaughan Williams: Bass Tuba Concerto in F Minor: III. Finale
Tuba with orchestra