Author: vboboe
Date: 2007-03-04 19:40
... except for the very short classical theme excerpts in Essential Elements and Standard of Excellence, a beginner's level "easy" classical book i've found is Festival Solos in the Standard of Excellence series (Bruce Pearson & Mary Elledge) Most are in Bflat, a few in Eflat. It has some very nice melodies at an easy tempo selected from Baroque, Classical & Romantic eras. Tempi range from 92 to 120, with 108 and 112 most common.
However, until you've built enough embouchure strength, air support, and fingers are quite fluent, i'd say this is a book for 2nd to 3rd year as each piece is a page long. However, maximum 7 staves per page with an average 8 bars per staff, not too long really. Rhythms simple enough, no 16ths, quite a lot of 8ths though. Haydn's St Anthony Chorale is played high register (only one bar down to Bflat on middle line) quite a challenge for air support, definitely better left until late 2nd year to get started there.
Nice thing about all of these arrangements, they have several rest bars introduction to get settled after track selection on CD
As for the Jay Arnold Oboe Solos, there are a couple 'beginner' pieces in it, but IMO, most of these are beyond 4th year primary beginners
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