List of Recommended
Saxophone Repertoire

List of Recommended Repertoire for Bb Tenor saxophone
(with piano unless specified)

Many of the great pieces in the repertoire are concertos for solo sax with orchestra or band, and most of these have piano reductions, so be sure to have a look at my concerto list for more music for tenor. Still more tenor pieces can be found in the unaccompanied and sax/tape/electronics lists. I have indicated some of the most popular pieces of standard tenor repertoire by typing the titles in green.

Composer

Title

Grade/comments

Publisher

Bruno Amato

Five Bagatelles

5

Amato

Garland Anderson

Sonata

5

Dorn

Louis Andriessen

Ittrospezione III

5- w/ 2 pianos

Peters

Hubert Arnold

Anamnesis

5

Arnold

J.S. Bach, arr. Erik Steighner

Sonata #3 (orig. for
viola da gamba)

4

Steighner

Paul Ben-Haim

Three Songs Without Words

3

Israeli Music

Timothy Broege

Characteristic Suite

4

Dorn

Max Bruch, arr. Roger Greenberg

Kol Nidre

5

MonteVerde

Michael Cunningham

Trigon, Op. 31

6

 MMB

Claude Debussy, arr. James Houlik

Two Lyric Pieces

2

Southern

James
Di Pasquale

Sonata

4

Southern

William Duckworth

A Ballad in Time and Space

3-4

Seesaw

William Duckworth

Pitt County Excursions

4-5

Seesaw

Joseph Fiocco

Aria and Rondo

3-4

Kendor

Joseph Fiocco, arr. J-M Londeix

Concerto (orig for ‘cello)

4-5

Schott

C. Giovannini

Rhapsody for Tenor Saxophone

4

Armstrong

Walter S. Hartley

Four Pieces for Three Players

5- for tsx, vln, pno

Hartley

Walter S. Hartley

Poem

3- good with Sonorities VII and/or Scherzino

Presser

Walter S. Hartley

Scherzino

5- good with Poem and/or Sonorities

Tenuto

Walter S. Hartley

Sonata

5

Dorn

Walter S. Hartley

Sonorities VII

4- good with Poem and/or Scherzino

Tenuto

Walter S. Hartley

Trio Estatico

6- for tsx, asx, pno

Ethos

P. Hasquenoph

Concertino

5

Max Eschig

Paul Hindemith

Trio, Op. 47

5- tsx, viola, pno

Schott

M. William Karlins

Music for Tenor Saxophone and Piano

5

Southern

Guy Lacour

Piece Concertante

4

Billaudot

David Liebman

Ode for Leo

5- tsx & cello

Advance

Lawson Lunde

Sonata, Op. 25

4-5- tsx & asx

Southern

Ralph Martino

Iberian Sketches

4 – 5

Dorn

Allyn Reilly

Two Short Pieces

 

Southern

Erik Satie, arr; J. M. Leonard

Trois Gymnopédies

2-3

Masters Music

William Schmidt

Sonatina

 4

WIM

William Schmidt

Sonata

 5

WIM

Florent Schmitt

Song de Coppelius

3 – 4

Lemoine

Ivan Shekov

Nocturne

4

Peters

Jean-Baptiste Singelée

Adagio et Rondo, Op. 63

3 – 4

Roncorp

Jean-Baptiste Singelée

Pieces de Concert: op. 57, 75, 85, 92

3 – 4

Lemoine

Walter Skolnik

Sonatina

2

Tenuto

David W. Solomons

Rose Fantasia (w/pno or String Quartet)

3-4- also avail. for bsx, bass sx, cbsx

Musik Fabrik

Leon Stein

Sonata

4-5

Southern

Antonio Vivaldi, arr. Raschèr

Sonata in G minor

5

McGinnis & Marx

Anton von Webern

Quartet

 tsx, vln, cl, pno

Universal

John Worley

“Owl’s Head” Sonatina

5

Dorn

John Worley

September Sonata

4

Dorn

John Worley

Sonata

5

Dorn

John Worley

White Morning Stillness

3-4

Dorn

Lawrence Wyman

Rainfall

3

Wyman



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