Author: WoodwindOz
Date: 2010-08-26 09:37
Jaysne, just to clarify, I only teach flute at high school level (so not 20 odd oboists - but still a LOT of flutes!). And our state high schools have about 1000-1500 students total, to put things in perspective.
Hautbois, I have only noticed with the flute AMEB exams that the levels progress much faster in terms of the difficulty of repertoire, the range and the extent of scales that are used. For example, flute grade one has a range to high C with scales in one flat and one sharp, but grade two has a range to high G with scales to two flats/sharps, including melodic minors (including a couple of scales which are not so easy fingering wise.
I don't know anything about oboe ABRSM or others, but repertoire for Grade 6 includes the 1st and 2nd movements of the Saint-Saens sonata and Albinoni Concerto No. 6 in D, Grade 7 includes the Hindemith sonata 1st movt and the Nielsen Fantasystucke. How does that compare?
For our LMusA (Licentiate), wind players have to memorise one complete work from their program.
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