Dr.

Timothy McAllister
The University of Arizona
Saxophone Studio

Recommended Solo Repertoire and Studies for Saxophone

Level I

Etudes and Methods

 
48 Famous Etudes Ferling  Southern
18 Studies after Berbiguier Mule  Leduc
27 Melodious & Rhythmical Etudes J.L. Small Carl Fischer
Selected Studies Voxman Rubank
Beginning Studies in the Altissimo Register Lang Lang
High Tones for Saxophone Rousseau Etoile
Voicing: An Approach to Third Range Sinta/Dabney  Sintafest

Repertoire
 
Aria Bozza  Leduc
Syrinx (unacc.) Debussy Leduc
Choral Varie d'Indy Durand
Sonata Eccles/Rascher Elkan-Vogel
Sonata Fasch/Rascher  McGinnis & Marx
Cinq Danses Exotiques Francaix Schott
Histoires  Ibert  Leduc
Sicilienne Lantier  Leduc
Visions Fugitives Prokofiev/Harrison Boosey & Hawkes
Piece en forme de Habanera  Ravel Leduc
Ballade Reed Southern
Chanson et Passepied Rueff  Leduc
Variations on themes from Der Freischutz Savari Lemoine
Concertino Singelee Lemoine
Three Romances Schumann/Hemke Southern
Romance Still  International
Sonatine Sportive Tcherepnine Leduc
Introduction et Danse Tomasi  Leduc
An Abstract Ward  Southern
Six Studies in English Folk Song Vaughan Williams Presser
 
Books
The Art of Saxophone Playing Teal Summy Birchard
150 Ans de Musique pour Saxophone Londeix Roncorp
Level II

Etudes and Methods

 
Daily Studies for the Improvement of 
the Saxophone Technique Teal Etoile
Daily Studies Kynaston  Etoile
27 Virtuoso Studies Iasilli Carl Fischer
Les Gammes Londeix Lemoine
10 Contemporary Etudes  Schmidt  WIM
Nouvelles Etudes Variees  Londeix Leduc
Studies in the High Harmonics Nash   Leeds

Repertoire
 
Sonata No. 6 (flute) Bach/Mule Leduc
Improvisation et Caprice (unacc.) Bozza Leduc 
Sonata  Creston  Shawnee
Rapsodie Debussy/Rousseau Etoile
Concerto Dubois Leduc
Concerto Glazunov Leduc 
Sonata No. 1 (flute) Handel/Mule  Leduc
Duo Hartley  Tenuto
Petite Suite (unacc.)  Hartley  Crescendo
Solo Heiden  Associated 
Fantasia Concertante Heiden Etoile 
Sonata Heiden Schott
Sonata Hindemith Schott
Fantaisie-Impromptu Jolivet Leduc 
Tableaux de Provence  Maurice Lemoine
Sonatine Pascal Durand  
Canzonetta Pierne/Mule Leduc
Sonata Op. 167  Saint-Saens/Teal  Etoile
Ballade Tomasi Leduc
Introduction and Samba  Whitney Bourne Books
 
Books
The Orchestral Saxophonist Vol. 1 & 2 Ronkin & Frascotti Roncorp
Sax and His Saxophone  Kochnitzky  NASA Publications
Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone Ingham, ed. Cambridge
Saxophone Soloists and Their Music Gee Indiana Univ. Press
 
Level III

Etudes and Methods

 
Paradigms I  Caravan Dorn
Contemporary Saxophone Studies DeLibero Dorn 
25 Capricen und Sonate (Bks. I & II) Karg-Elert Southern 
28 Etudes after Messiaen Lacour  Billaudot
53 Etudes, Book I  Mule  Leduc 

Repertoire  
 
Pensive Soliloquy Adler Presser
Partita in A minor (flute unacc.) J.S. Bach  Henle Verlag
Cello Suites I-VI J.S. Bach/Londeix Lemoine
Suites and Partitas J. S. Bach/Caravan Roncorp
Concertino (w/Aeolian Song) Benson MCA 
Caprice en forme de Valse  Bonneau Leduc 
Divertimento  Boutry  Leduc 
Concerto Creston  Schirmer
Deux Pieces Denisov Leduc 
Concertino da Camera  Ibert  Leduc
Sonata Karg-Elert Southern 
Scaramouche Milhaud  Salabert 
Sonata  Muczynski Schirmer 
Improvisation I, II & III (unacc.) Noda  Leduc
Parable (unacc.) Persichetti Elkan-Vogel 
Cadenza Robert Billaudot 
Sonata (unacc.)  Rueff  Leduc 
Sarabande and Gigue  Tull  Boosey & Hawkes 

Books
 
Marcel Mule  Rousseau  Etoile
The Saxophonist's Bedside Book  Harvey    Dorn
Hello, Mr. Sax!  Londeix  Leduc 
Level IV

Etudes and Methods

 
12 Etudes and Caprices Bozza  Leduc 
Mirrors IV Diemente Dorn
53 Etudes, Book 2 Mule Leduc 
16 Finishing Studies Ruggiero Leduc 

Repertoire
  
Canto IV Adler Dorn 
Music for Saxophone Bassett Peters 
Sonata in Eb (orig. clarinet) Brahms/Saiano International 
Pastoral  Carter  Merion
Rothko-Tobey Continuum (w/tape) Chambers Manuscript
Gavambodi 2 Charpentier  Leduc
Air and Scherzo Cowell Associated 
Seventh Healing Song of John Joseph DeMars Manuscript
Prelude, Cadence et Finale Desenclos Leduc
Elegie et Rondeau Husa  Leduc 
Concerto Larsson Gehrmans
Distances Within Me Lennon Dorn 
Ballade (alto)  Martin  Universal 
Sonata  Maslanka  NASA Publications 
Concerto  Muczynski Schirmer
Mai (unacc.)  Noda Leduc
Phoenix (unacc.)  Noda  Leduc
Concerto (sax & trpt)  Rivier Pierre Noel 
The Nature of this Whirling Wheel Rogers Dorn 
Picnic on the Marne Rorem  Boosey & Hawkes
Legende Schmitt  Durand
Concerto Tomasi Leduc
Wings Tower Associated 
Portrait  Wildberger  Universal Books
 
Books 
Les Sons Multiples aux Saxophones  Kientzy  Salabert 
 
Level V-Graduate and Professional Level

Etudes and Methods

 
8 Etudes Brilliantes Lacour Leduc
Neuf Etudes Books I-IV Lauba Leduc
Tango-Etudes Piazzolla/Delangle Lemoine 

Repertoire
 
Sonata Albright Peters 
Heater (asx & band) Albright Peters
Whirled Series Babbitt  Peters
Images (sopnino, sop, alto w/tape) Babbitt  Peters
Duo Concertante Bassett  Peters
Concerto Bassett Peters 
Sequenza IXb (unacc.) Berio Universal
Panic (a.sax, drum kit and winds) Birtwistle Boosey & Hawkes
Concert Suite (a.sax & band)  Bolcom Marks
Lilith  Bolcom Marks
Concerto  Brant Carl Fischer
Concertante M. Constant  Ricordi
Concerto Dahl European American
Sonata Denisov Leduc
Concerto Piccolo Denisov Leduc
Concerto   Denisov Sikorski 
Concerto Finney  Peters
Music for Alto Saxophone and Electronics Furman Manuscript 
Concerto Husa Associated
Concerto fantastique Ito Lemoine
Airline (w/ tape) Krause Manuscript
Holy Roller Larsen Oxford
Steady Study on the Boogie (unacc.) Lauba  Billaudot 
Sud Lauba Fuzeau 
Symphonic Rhapsody Lennon Peters
Concerto Martino Dantalian 
Concerto Mays Manuscript
Concerto Mead Manuscript 
Scena (unacc.) Mead Manuscript 
Hiatus Pitch (unacc.) Moore Manuscript
GEN  Noda Leduc
Arabesque III Nodäira Lemoine 
Le frene egare (unacc.) Rosse Billaudot 
In Freundschaft (unacc.)  Stockhausen Stockhausen Verlag 
Concerto Salonen  Hansen-Helsinki 
Concerto Schuller  Associated 
Renewing the Myth Shrude Lemoine
In Two Worlds (sax w/ computer) Subotnick Manuscript
Sonata deus sax machina Wanamaker Manuscript 
Divertimento Wuorinen Peters
Fuzzy Bird Sonata Yoshimatsu Billaudot 
In Transit Zupko Manuscript

Supplemental Repertoire

Tenor Saxophone Repertoire (Level I-V)

 
Sonata Anderson  Dorn
Trigon, Op.31 Cunningham Etoile 
Sonata  DiPasquale  Southern
Pitt County Excursions  Duckworth  Seesaw
Ballad in Time and Space Duckworth Seesaw 
Poem  Hartley  Presser 
Concertino  Hartley Dorn 
Sonata Hartley  Dorn 
Concertino Hasquenoph  Heugal 
Opcit (unacc.) Hurel Billaudot 
Episode Quatriemme (unacc.) Jolas  Leduc 
Music for Tenor Saxophone Karlins  Southern 
Piece Concertante  Lacour  Billaudot 
Hard (unacc.) Lauba Fuzeau 
Ballade (tenor) Martin Universal 
Periple (unacc.) Mefano Salabert 
Chant Premier Mihalovici Billaudot
The Upward Stream Peck Pecktacular 
Voilements III (w/tape) Risset Salabert
Tre Pezzi (unacc.) Scelsi  Salabert 
Sonatina Schmidt  Western International 
Concerto Schmidt Western International 
Fantasia  Villa-Lobos Peer/Southern

Soprano Saxophone Repertoire (Level I-V)

 
Phases Contra Phases Arma  Lemoine
Accompanied Recitative Babbitt Peters
Sequenza VIIb (unacc.) Berio Universal 
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (unacc.) Britten Boosey & Hawkes 
The Green Ray Bryars Schott
Inner Song (unacc.) Carter  Boosey & Hawkes 
Le Chant des Ténèbres Escaich Leduc
Streetlegal Etezady Manuscript
Aulodie (w/tape) Mache Durand
Sonata in G Major Platti/Rousseau Etoile 
Sonata (orig. oboe)  Poulenc  Schirmer 
Concerto  Read-Thomas  Manuscript 
Graffiti (unacc.) Redgate Lemoine
Lessons of the Sky  Rogers Dorn 
Interplay  Ruggiero  Dorn 
Tre Pezzi (unacc.) Scelsi Salabert 
In Freundschaft (unacc.) Stockhausen  Stockhausen Verlag 
Sur la memoire Sung Lemoine
Distance Takemitsu Sikorski 
Mysterious Morning III (unacc.) Tanada Lemoine
Concerto  Torke Boosey & Hawkes 
Fantasia  Villa-Lobos  Peer 
Sonata Young  Dorn