The Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical, contemporary and educational repertoire, highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Karl Jenkins, Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton, alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall, Edward Huws Jones and others.

Carefully selected by Janet Way, this practical anthology provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 4 flautist and creates the perfect package for teaching, exam preparation and performance.

Each volume contains:

a selection of pieces & short studies, each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip
grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises
brand new sight-reading and improvisation activities
newly-commissioned aural awareness tasks
a piano accompaniment booklet
Full performance demonstrations, piano accompaniment tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources available online.

Janet Way (Hon ARAM) is an experienced performer and teacher. She is a tutor for the LRAM woodwind teaching course at the Royal Academy of Music, and has worked as a mentor and diploma examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. She is founder and director of the internationally-acclaimed Oxford Flute Summer School.

Dmitri Shostakovich, Hurdy-Gurdy (from ‘Dances of the Dolls’)
Steve Pogson, Down at the drive in
Benoit Berbiguier, Duet
Howard Ferguson, Three Sketches, no 1
Leonard Bernstein, Tonight (from ‘West Side Story’)
Thomas Whythorne, Lyke as the birds that swallowes hight
Giuseppe Gariboldi, Study
Johann Sebastian Bach Gigue
Stuart Isacoff, A little Mo’satch
Colin Evans, Lotus talk
Georg Philipp Telemann, Fantasia
George Frideric Handel, Siciliana & Giga (from ‘Sonata in F major op 1, no 11’)
Jean Louis Tulou, Study
Christopher Norton, Carthorse Rag