String Orchestra-Eight innovative pieces for string players in their first year using first position (only first finger) and open strings. Viola part is optional.Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Improve your Cello playing with this brilliant tutor part of the successful and popular All For Strings series. It is a comprehensive string method that is suitable for the classroom or individual study helping you tounderstand the fundamentals and theory of music. The series is applicable to all string instruments but this workbook is particularly for Cello with studies exercises games techniques various musical Styles and a detailedgraphical approach make this a fantastic learning tool.

Flexible String Ensemble-These favourite dance tunes are all well known in America where they are used for 'Square Dances' and 'Contras'.Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

British composer Michael Nyman ‘discovered’ this work when he played Leporello’s catalogue aria from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni on the Piano in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis. He has written that that musical discovery ‘dictatedthe dynamic articulation and texture of everything I’ve subsequently done’. The work is based on the first sixteen bars of the Catalogue Aria with thrusting rhythmic propulsion and repeated double stops for all instrumentsproduced within a short thrilling time frame.

Five imaginative pieces for string orchestra based exclusively on open strings. Ideal for concentrating on the development of bow technique and rhythmic playing.Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras carefully structured in two levels. The ‘Easy’ level does not normally exceed Grade 2 in difficulty with most partsplayable in first position while the ‘Moderately Easy’ level includes some parts of around Grade 3 standard. At easy level alternative parts are provided so that the absence of viola or a double bass does not prevent the piecefrom being performed. Available in score or sets of instrumental parts. There are over 30 titles covering a wide range of styles including classical pieces folk tunes and Christmas collections. Playstrings is an idealintroduction to orchestral playing for young string players. Set of 19 parts contains: 4 x Violin 1 4 x Violin 2 4 x Violin 3 2 x Viola 3 x Cello 2 x Double Bass/Cello 2.

For A Summer's Day (Knight)-Easy music for string groups. Playstrings provides an enjoyable and varied repertoire for young string orchestras carefully structured in two levels. The ‘Easy’ level does not normally exceed Grade 2 in difficulty with most partsplayable in first position while the ‘Moderately Easy’ level includes some parts of around Grade 3 standard. At easy level alternative parts are provided so that the absence of viola or a double bass does not prevent the piecefrom being performed. Available in score or sets of instrumental parts. There are over 30 titles covering a wide range of styles including classical pieces folk tunes and Christmas collections. Playstrings is an idealintroduction to orchestral playing for young string players. Set of 21 parts contains: 4 x Violin 1 4 x Violin 2 4 x Violin 3 2 x Viola 1 2 x Viola 2 2 x Cello 1 2 x Cello 2 1 x Double Bass.

The composer writes:Pilgrim was inspired it will be no surprise to learn by reading Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - Vaughan Williams's great opera on the subject had fascinated me from its first performance yet it was a long time before I caught up with this essential item in any well-stocked library of English classics. It made a great impression not least because of its theme of a journey of self-discovery and a rediscovery or renewal of faith. These are ideas which have a strong interest for me not in religious terms but in their application to every aspect of human life (including great journeys) and this piece reflects my response in musical terms to this concern. The tempo of the whole piece which lasts about 18 minutes is basically slow. There are two quick episodes but these act somewhat like the trio sections of a classical scherzo save that the tempo relationships are inverted (the classical trios would have been slower not quicker) and the canvas is much larger being that of a single substantial slow movement. The form of the whole is perhaps fantasia-like rather than having any relationship to classical forms such as sonata or rondo - some motifs and themes are varied as the work develops and the opening chords are of primary importance throughout the work. There has been no attempt to convey any pictorial elements deriving from Bunyan's great book. There is however one feature which upon completion of the score struck me with some force which is that almost all the thematic material is essentially striving upwards - there is a constant upward movement (sometimes over a lengthy period) throughout the work. Pilgrim was commissioned by the Luton Music Club for the Raphael Ensemble with funds provided by the Eastern Arts Board and Bedfordshire County Council and is dedicated to the Luton Music Club. The first performance was given in Luton on February 10th 1997 and followed as part of a joint scheme by performances in the same week at the Music Clubs of Bedford and Leighton Buzzard.

Great fun for all with this blues tune that effectively introduces the difference between F-sharp and F-natural for violins and violas and C-sharp and C natural for all instruments. Let your group jam their hearts out on thisgreat ensemble teachingpiece.

Impro an exciting new introduction to improvisation in string playing is suited to absolute beginners as well as more advanced players. It can be combined with regular teaching methods or used as a source of relaxation and fun in lessons and all the material is interchangeable between violin viola cello and double bass. The skills of free improvisation are built up in stages using basic ideas and progressing to more complex patterns. There are guidelines all the way plus duets with improvisation for teacher and pupil - and any other string players wishing to enjoy this lively and original style of music-making! A teacher working in Holland Sarah Stiles leadsworkshops in her method of Free Improvisation and is also the composer of the unique Dual Band nine violin duos with improvisation.

Viva Vibrato! is exciting innovative and revolutionary in its approach to teaching vibrato. There has never been anything like it before. Its upbeat style and dialogue and contemporary design gently guides studentsthrough a five-section curriculum: Vibrato Readiness The Birth of a Vibrato The Developing Vibrato The Maturing Vibrato The Artistic Vibrato. All teachers of string instruments will find this course user friendly. The courseincludes Violin Viola Cello String Bass Piano Accompaniment Teacher's Manual and Score.

Viva Vibrato! is exciting innovative and revolutionary in its approach to teaching vibrato. There has never been anything like it before. Its upbeat style and dialogue and contemporary design gently guides studentsthrough a five-section curriculum: Vibrato Readiness The Birth of a Vibrato The Developing Vibrato The Maturing Vibrato The Artistic Vibrato. All teachers of string instruments will find this course user friendly. The courseincludes Violin Viola Cello String Bass Piano Accompaniment Teacher's Manual and Score.

Originally arranged for West Oxfordshire Adult Education String Workshop this short piece is for players of an early grade.Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Taken from Mozart's 17 Divertimenti for Various Instruments this transcription makes ideal teaching and performance material with integral interesting writing for all instruments.